World War I: Difference between revisions

** To drive this home, [http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/254/2/f/in_coburg_by_alixofhesse-d49klk6.png this picture] shows [[Queen Victoria]] at Coburg inn 1894 with her some of her extended family. In that picture you have two future British Kings, as well as the last Kaiser (of Germany) and the last Czarina (of Russia), and those are just children and grandchildren.

* [[Foreshadowing]]:

"The crash will come twenty years after I am gone." - Bismarck, 18 years before the end of the German Empire

"The lights are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." - Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Minister, as the war began

* While most of the episode is set a year before, the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Family of Blood" (based on the [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel ''Human Nature'') features two of the students from the episode's school fighting and surviving in the trenches of the war.

* The ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode "To the Last Man" has a World War I veteran snatched away by Torchwood in order to fix two timelines colliding with one another. At the end of the episode after returning to the war, [[Downer Ending|he gets shot for cowardice and shell-shock in the war]].

* On ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'', both Jimmy Darmody and Richard Harrow fought in the war, and are both [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|not coping well]], which leads to their involvement in organized crime. Harrow in particular suffered [[Facial Horror|horrific injuries]].

* The second season of ''[[Downton Abbey]]'' is set during the war.