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As the sun sets at the end of another day of bloody and violent battle, a line of wounded men approaches a dressing station. Blinded by the effects of a mustard gas attack they are spared the sight of their wounded colleagues lying on the ground around them. Simply called Gassed, the painting - which measures 611cm x 231cm - is not a depiction of the heroic struggle that epitomised the romantic notion of the noble warrior, but of the aftermath of battle and the price paid by a generation who fought and fell for King and Country in the Great War of 1914-18.		1.
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7.   8.   9.						1. Gassed by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), August 1918 6. Chinese propaganda poster, 1949 2. Leonard Bernstein and Woody Herman, New York City, 1949 7. Metallurgy Workshop of Naval Depot, Europort, Holland by Haeyenbrock 3. Seated Woman in Blue by Amedeo Modigliani (1824-1920), 1919 8. Telephone with receiver and bell by Swedish Ericsson, 1924 4. Orione G.3301 Geleso radio, early 1960s 9. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) at the funeral of civil rights activist Medgar Evans in Jackson, Mississippi, 1963 5. Building a Dam, mural by William Gropper (1897-1977), Washington 1939