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On 26 July 1918, a violent explosion shook the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. The German Army had been within forty miles of the French capital since their Spring Offensive and the city had been subject to regular bombardments leading to many civilian casualties. A new front had opened in an all-encompassing war, leaving Parisians gripped with a new sense of anxiety and panic.1 However, the blast at the ENS was not the work of the German Army.
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Irish, T. (2015). The Application of Specialist Knowledge. In: The University at War, 1914–25. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137409461_3
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