Image: Black and white grainy photograph of WWI soldiers stepping over barbed wire in an open field, all carrying rifles.

Black Butchers, Big Berthas, and Bombardments: Technology and the Making of the Great War

Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 | 7 p.m. Linda Hall Library

More military technological change occurred between 1865 and 1918 than in the previous four millennia of warfare combined. One of the most important of these changes, and the one that became the greatest killer of World War I, was modern artillery. Richard S. Faulkner will explore the unforeseen consequences of artillery that contributed to the ugly attritional character of the Great War.

Hosted in partnership with Linda Hall Library.

Free with RSVP | Linda Hall Library and Online

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