Wednesday, October 28, 2026

An Extraordinary Historic Russian Coat from the Great War Era

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This coat, in laudable condition, has survived since c. 1918/19 and now is preserved in the National WWI  Museum  and  Memorial , Kansas Cit...
Tuesday, October 27, 2026

The Battle of Charleroi, 1914

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The Battle of the Frontiers in August and early September 1914 that witnessed the lightning advance of the German Army into Belgium and Fran...
Monday, October 26, 2026

An Esoteric Collection of Great War Memorabilia: Pt. II—In and About the Trenches and Beyond

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Welcome back to the Esoteric Collection.  *An update from the front: Hanlon is pinned down at an undisclosed CCS by heavy artillery fire. Ac...
Sunday, October 25, 2026

An Esoteric Collection of Great War Memorabilia: Pt. I—Souvenirs

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Over the decades one tends to collect, or be given (even inherit), a variety of curiosities from the Great War. This  Roads  post visits som...
Saturday, October 24, 2026

A Russian Women's Death Battalion at the Winter Palace, 24 October 1917

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    These two chapters from  In a Women's Death Battalion: A Russian Nurse in Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1918 (Maria Bocharnikova; t...
Friday, October 23, 2026

Notice

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 Dear Readers, Please excuse a hiatus at Roads  for a day or two while our editor, Mike Hanlon, is away inspecting casualty clearing station...
Thursday, October 22, 2026

Jay Winter's Take on Hitler and the "Stab in the Back"

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Hitler Speaking at an Early Rally Adolph Hitler did not invent the phrase "Stab in the Back." The failed German military leaders o...