This week we're talking about Wonder Woman! Join us for a discussion of Belgium in WWI, chemical weapons, and more!

Sources:

Film Production and Background:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wonder_woman_2017 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman_(2017_film) 

Behind the scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgPX3sNrdps 

https://ew.com/events/comic-con/wonder-woman-behind-the-scenes-secrets/ 

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/movies/a9953525/wonder-woman-behind-the-scenes-facts/

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/06/08/news/blood-tribe-actor-alberta-bringing-his-language-wonder-woman 

Bonus scene: https://youtu.be/wIKLRHWwf5o (a.k.a. Etta deserved more!)

Belgium in WWI:

"The 'Rape of Belgium' Revisited"  http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/memoryofwar/the-rape-of-belgium-revisited/ Women at War 1914-1918 (Netflix)Bryce Report https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/bryce-report-committee-alleged-german-outrages 

Horne, John. "Blinded to atrocity." The Times Literary Supplement, February 6, 2004, 4. The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2014 (accessed August 19, 2020). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200517219/TLSH?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=TLSH&xid=23da4ed9.  

Hart, Peter. Voices from the Front : An Oral History of the Great War. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.  

Stibbe, Matthew. "The internment of civilians by belligerent states during the first world war and the response of the International Committee of the Red Cross." Journal of Contemporary History 41, no. 1 (2006): 5-19.  

https://www.gvsd.org/cms/lib02/pa01001045/centricity/domain/610/internmentarticle.pdf 

 Proctor, Tammy M. "Missing in action: Belgian civilians and the First World War." Belgisch Tijdschrift voor de Nieuwste Tijd35 (2005): 547-572. https://www.journalbelgianhistory.be/nl/system/files/article_pdf/BTNG-RBHC,%2035,%202005,%204,%20pp%20547-572.pdf  

 https://youtu.be/Yb5As7xS85k --multicultural war (in Dutch/French)

Commonwealth troops in WWI: The Empire Called to Arms, Imperial War Museum https://youtu.be/5L34pFNpawU

 Imperial War Museum, Passcendaele https://youtu.be/AiZcRzsabXM  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Ypres 

Chemical Weapons:

James Patton, "Gas in the Great War," Available at http://www.kumc.edu/wwi/medicine/gas-in-the-great-war.html

Leo P Brophy, "Origins of the Chemical Corps," Military Affairs 20, 4 (1956)

Gerard J Fitzgerald, "Chemical Warfare and Medical Response During WWI," American Journal of Public Health 98, 4 (2008)