Now all roads lead to France and heavy is the tread
Of the living; but the dead returning lightly dance.
Edward Thomas, Roads

Friday, July 15, 2022

Memorable Personalities of the Great War—A Roads Collection



Articles


Major Holland Smith, USMC


Holland "Howling Mad" Smith, USMC, in the Great War


Do svidanija, Rasputin


André Maginot, Verdun, and the Maginot Line


The Fate of the Three Pashas


The Kaiser in Exile at Huis Doorn


Veteran of the Great War and Saint: Padre Pio


Sgt. Georgy Zhukov Goes to War


Theodore Roosevelt's Family at War


On the Importance of Col. Georg Bruchmüller


Tolkien's Unique View of the War


What Was the Durnovo Memorandum?


Willy Coppens: The Greatest Balloon Buster of the War



Book Reviews


Harry Drinkwater, Soldier of the King


Harry's War: The Great War Diary of Harry Drinkwater 


Pétain: Verdun to Vichy


Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East



1 comment:

  1. For me, I look at the person's lifespan and who he may have had connections with. After all, the world military community is a small one.

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