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Monday, 29 September 2025

Stalin the Bureaucrat: Gaining Power Through the Mundane

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  A Misleading Propaganda Piece Lenin and Stalin Shown as Friendly Colleagues After the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War, the Offi...
Sunday, 28 September 2025

The Great War's Costs to Private Lives and Private Property

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Skull by Otto Dix "The war provided a windfall for scavengers such as worms and maggots." T. Hunt Tooley, Austin College  Europea...
Saturday, 27 September 2025

Recommended Download: His Knightly Honor Proved—The Fascinating Career of German 461st Infantry Commander at Belleau Wood, Lt. Col. Josef Bischoff, by Colonel William Anderson, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve (Ret)

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  Destined for Belleau Wood Lt. Col. Josef Bischoff and His Staff in Russia, 1917 The Summer 2025 Issue of Marine Corps History features th...
Friday, 26 September 2025

Remarkable: The University of Washington's Online Tribute to Its Fallen Students and Alumni of the First World War

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All Images in This Article Can Be Enlarged by Clicking on Them As part of the Centennial commemoration of the war, the University of Washing...
Thursday, 25 September 2025

Fall 1916: When the Morale of the Italian Army Began Ebbing

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Fighting on the Carso Plateau In August 1916, the Italian Army won it's first major strategic success of the Great War.  In capturing Go...
Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Ahoy Philatelists! Do You Know About the Royal Mail's Blackadder Goes Forth Set?

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Captain Edmund Blackadder (1871–1917) As our regular readers are aware,  your editor is an enthusiast for the Blackadder TV series, especia...
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Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Prologue to Nuremberg: The Politics and Diplomacy of Punishing War Criminals of the First World War

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Dinant, Belgium, Memorial to Its 674 Civilians Killed by the German Army  By James F. Willis Greenwood Publishing Group, 1982 Reviewed by Mi...
Monday, 22 September 2025

The Battleships of the Great White Fleet Go to War

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America's Battleships on Their World Cruise, 1907–1909 Less than a decade before America joined the hostilities in Europe, President Th...
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Sunday, 21 September 2025

Lonesome Memorial #17: The NINE BRAVE MEN on the Somme Battlefield

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  By James Patton On Tuesday 22 July 2025, at a crossroads in the former Somme battlefield, a private memorial was rededicated, after a majo...
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Saturday, 20 September 2025

Best and Most Concise Summary I've Found of the Operational Challenges of the World War I Battlefields

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This is an excerpt from the article "Dumb Donkeys or Cunning Foxes? Learning in the British and German Armies during the Great War...
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Friday, 19 September 2025

The Attack on the Anthill from Paths of Glory — Video

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Thursday, 18 September 2025

Spain's Fake Neutrality

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King Alfonso XIII, Who Survived Five Assassination Attempts During His Reign, Supported Neutrality Carolina Garcia Sanz, University of Sevil...
Wednesday, 17 September 2025

1914 and Innocence

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The British Expeditionary Force Arriving,  August 1914 Shaun O'Connell For Henry James, writing in August 1914, The Great War represente...
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