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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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