Monday, January 20, 2025
The Pola Naval Base of Austria-Hungary
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In All Its Glory: The Austro-Hungarian Fleet at Pola The Pola (now "Pula") Naval Base was located in Pola, a city in the Istrian ...
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Sunday, January 19, 2025
Sharing a Family’s Grief with Posterity: The Personal Messages Carved on WWI British Headstones
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By James Patton Many readers of Roads to the Great War have toured the British battlefields in Europe and visited some of the hundreds of B...
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Eyewitness: At the Front Line at Anzac
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Private Cecil Malthus By Private Cecil Malthus, Nelson Company, Canterbury Battalion, New Zealand Brigade We went to Quinn's Post by a s...
Friday, January 17, 2025
"[You're Dead] Joseph Arthur Brown"
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Our Poet: Edward Adolphe Sinauer de Stein (1887–1965) was born in London and educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was commissio...
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Lonesome Memorial #10: Belgium's Appreciation of Herbert Hoover
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I am that which was and is and Will ever be, and no mortal has yet Lifted the veil which covers me This bronze, seven and a half foot tall s...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Kaiser Wilhelm's Left Arm and the Fate of the World
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The Hetman of Ukraine with Kaiser Wilhelm II Kaisers Wilhelm II's physical deficiency has often been identified as the key to his lust f...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The Secret Battle, A Tragedy of the First World War
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By A. P. Herbert Frontline Books, 2009 Originally, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1919 Reviewed by Bruce Sloan The Secret Battle is a novel, but i...
Monday, January 13, 2025
Fact Sheet: The Austro-Hungarian Empire at War
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General facts Population: 48.5 million (1914) Capital: Vienna (1914 population 2 million) Head of State: Emperor Franz Joseph I (2 December ...
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Sunday, January 12, 2025
The Great Machine Gun War—It Wasn't Like Any Other
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Russian Machine Gun, c. 1905 By John Beatty Prelude: Mukden 1905 From 20 February to 10 March, 2,005 Russian and Japanese machine gunner...
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Saturday, January 11, 2025
The Exciting Lives of Balloon Observers
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Click on Image to Enlarge An American Balloon Squad Training Stateside Of the AEF's 35 balloon companies then in France, with 446 offi...
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