Maps of Solar Eclipses from 1910 to 1914

Just two weeks after the onset of World War I, a total solar eclipse crossed active battlefields in Europe and Russia. The journal The Graphic provides this evocative illustration. From the caption:

War -- Two World-Embracing Shadows -- Eclipse

By a strange coincidence, at the very moment when all Europe is joined in the class of battle the world will witness Nature's most awe-inspiring phenomenon, which in old times - when men were "dismayed at the signs of heaven" - struck terror into all hearts. To-day (Friday) there will be a total eclipse of the sun visible as a partial eclipse in London, where it begins at 10.59 a.m. and ends at 1.21 p.m., the greatest phase occuring at 11 minutes after noon. The portion of the earth upon which the penumbra, or partial shadow, will fall includes the area involved in the Great War. In Germany and Austria (omen faustum?) the eclipse will be nearly total.