Nordin created the first backpack in an effort to find a lighter solution for his hikes through the Swedish forest and used the native Sami people to test his new lighter wooden frame.
There are broader issues concerning the ways that societies make war, the appropriateness of particular political systems for mass conflict and the efforts to mobilise technical and intellectual resources, which might well have provided a more coherent frame through which to test the hypothesis that the two wars should be treated as one.
Video playback remains limited, and our default test video, which is an .mp4, suffered from plenty of frame dropouts and decoding errors that made the image unwatchable in places.