Roads to the Great War
Friday, June 13, 2025

Ten Things I Missed on My Sixteen Visits to the Meuse-Argonne but Discovered on Google Street View

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1.  La Croix du Bayle This metal-framed cross stands atop a 231-meter hill at Cornay located at the north end of the Argonne Forest and over...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Weapons of War: Char d'Assault St. Chamond—The First Self-Propelled Artillery

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The French St. Chamond tank was essentially a predecessor to the modern-day self-propelled gun. Designed as a tank, it proved a heavy, plodd...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

The Asiago Plateau—The Great War's Loveliest Battlefield (At Least Before and After)

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Asiago Sacrario Militaire  War Memorial It's probably the prettiest place you can imagine a war being fought. From 1916 until the Armist...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Leatherneck Warrior: The Biography of General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr.

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The 5th Marines on Review, May 1918 By Colonel Richard D. Camp, USMC (ret.) Casemate, 2025 Reviewed by Dennis Linton Leatherneck Warri...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Former President Taft's Forgotten World War I Involvement

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William Howard Taft 27th President of the United States Before his presidency, William Howard Taft had been an invaluable public servant. He...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Loos 1915: The British Respond with Gas to Germany's First Gas Attack

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German Soldiers Among Some of the Allied Gas Casualties During the Second Battle of Ypres Click on Text Boxes to Enlarge First Gas: Second Y...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda—Music Video by the Pogues

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Friday, June 6, 2025

Lonesome Memorials #14: Monumento aos Mortos da Grande Guerra; Lisbon, Portugal

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So, in 1990 I found myself in Lisbon during the Iberian phase of my mini-grand tour of Europe. My  hotel was on the upper end of the capital...
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Thursday, June 5, 2025

What Happened to Zita, the Last Empress of Austria-Hungary?

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Happy Days: Zita with Emperor Franz Josef and Her Husband, Future Emperor Karl By Martin Mutschlechner Born on 9 May 1892, Zita was the daug...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

The Dead Man's Penny

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  Medallion of Private Robert John Bruce, AIF By Ken Wright Somewhere amongst the vandalized graves, rusting wrought iron railing, and a few...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Maxime Weygand: A Biography of the French General in Two World Wars

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  Generalissimo Foch & Staff Officer Weygand, 1918 By Barnett Singer McFarland & Co., 2008 James E. O'Donnell, Reviewer Maxime W...
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Monday, June 2, 2025

First News Reports of the Second Battle of Ypres

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For some years I've been interested in examining how newspapers covered unfolding, "breaking", major episodes from the war.  I...
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