Don't Eat Me 3
from Don't Eat Me Hosted by Mark Webster
Notes and sources The Great War and mortality impacts: Dmitri Jdanov, Evgeny Andreev, Domantas Jasilionis and Vladimir M Shkolnikov of the Max Planck Institute in 2005. Between 1913 and 1918, British men aged 23 showed a 15-16 fold increase in the probability of premature death. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/16/13-16.pdf During World War One, in 1916, the Newfoundland Regiment went into action 753 strong; the following day, only 68 answered the roll call – 90% casualty rate, of whom almost half were deceased. In military (and any, actually) terms, this was a catastrophic and devastating loss. http://www.heritage.nf.ca/first-world-war/articles/beaumont-hamel-en.php Written, edited and produced by Mark Webster, original music by kraM Left, plus self-generated & Logic Pro 12 foley, Aotearoa New Zealand 2026
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Human devastations often follow each other. War leads to impacts that make people susceptible to other conditions as people suffer dislocation, cold and starvation. World War One was followed immediately by the devastating flu epidemic, then the Great Depression, then World War Two. Over three decades of (mostly human-created) awfulness.
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