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Peter Jackson's WWI air museum • documentary


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C.E.W. Beans, "Illustrated History of the War" conveys WW1 in, I think it's 12 thick volumes. You struggle to find any online information about this official record, but you can occasionally find it for sale online, or in bookshops. Many libraries have a set.

It is truly a staggering work, and the photos convey destruction that is nearly incomprehensible, and makes you wonder how anyone survived the War at all.

But what is not covered, is the civilian misery that accompanied the War, and which would probably fill another 50 volumes, if it had ever been recorded.

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HIs museum in Blenheim NZ is fantastic. The dioramas are first class, maybe his movie guys built them? Two great ones is of NZ pilot Keith Caldwell jumping out of his plane just before it crashed, living to fly the next day! And another of Aussie diggers robbing the body of Manfred Von Richthoften after they shot him down. Because of them, Jackson has on display one of the actual crosses cut out of the plane, and his fur boots!

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