Clapham Junction, England, Just After the War Clapham Junction was in 1914, and is currently, Britain's busiest interchange station. Cla...

  Sunday Morning at Cunel , Capt. Harvey Dunn Any man in those woods from the 4th to the 17th of October knows. . .the true situation. The s...

Women's Hats Before After Thanks to the incomparable Iowahawk (or Mrs. Hawk) for pointing this out and posting these great graphics. By ...

Henri-Philippe Pétain,  (born April 24, 1856, Cauchy-à-la-Tour, France—died July 23, 1951, Île d’Yeu) Pétain As a New General Articles Pétai...

Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn 1918–1998 More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offe...

__________________________ This absolutely superbly informative and  beautifully presented site hosted by Brigham Young University has recen...

You can't get at the truth by history; you can only get it through novels. Gerald Brenan, MC   Fiction reveals truth that reality obscur...

An Early "Air "Armada" By Robert S. Dudney In 1911 Italy went to war with the fading Ottoman Empire. Rome’s target was Libya,...

Lt. Quentin Roosevelt, 95th Aero Squadron On 25 June 1918 Quentin Roosevelt had proudly written to his mother: “I’m on the front—cheers, oh ...

Percy Cox in 1915 It was a tale of deception, double lives, attempted murder and, ultimately, suicide, which finally unravelled after a clea...

Russia on the March Articles Map Series #21 — Eastern Front 1914: Six Major Battles and Campaigns Stallupönen: First Battle on the Eastern F...

Going to War with the Lebel Rifle James Patton The French rifle Model 1886 M93, universally known as the Lebel Rifle, was the first of a ser...