Monday, February 2, 2026

Constructing the Siegfried-Stellung, Prelude to Germany's Retreat from the Somme

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New German Defenses at Cambrai The irreplaceable losses in the "Big Battles" of 1916 raised awareness of a looming manpower crisis...
Sunday, February 1, 2026

The Garden Slug: The Enemy of the Gardener Was an Ally to the Doughboy

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PFC Sluggo Reporting for Duty Originally presented by the University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources Agency, 12 February 20...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Lonesome Memorials #21: The Portogruaro, Italy, Charnel House

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Click on Image to Enlarge The city of Portogruaro (population appox. 25,000) lies 35 miles northeast from the Venice lagoon near the eastern...
Friday, January 30, 2026

SMS Seeadler – Germany's Deadly Three-Masted Commerce Raider

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SMS Seeadler by Christopher Rave SMS Seeadler (Sea Eagle) was a German raider under the command of Kapitänleutnant Felix von Luckner. She...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Remembering a Veteran: "The Luckiest Man Alive", Capt. John Hedley, RAF

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Captain John Herbert Hedley (1887–1977) was a World War I British flying observer/gunner credited with eleven aerial victories. Before his a...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

My Old Man at the Preparedness Day Bombing

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Preparedness Day in San Francisco, 22 July 1916 By Mike Hanlon, Editor/Publisher About five years ago, I presented an article on "My Ol...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Far From Suitable? Haig, Gough and Passchendaele: A Reappraisal

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  By Nicholas Ridley Helion & Company 2024 Reviewed by Jim Gallen Stretcher Bearers Crossing the Inundated Passchendaele Battlefield Far...
Monday, January 26, 2026

John Reed's Interview of Trotsky After the October Revolution

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Entrance to the Smolny Institute, Where John Reed Interviewed Trotsky By John Reed [JR]  On October 30th, by appointment, I went up to a sma...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Eyewitness: A Brutal, but Candid, View of Troops as Cannon Fodder: An American Journalist Visits Austro-Hungarian Hospitals

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By War Correspondent Arthur Ruhl AT the head of each iron bed hung the nurse's chart and a few words of "history." These histo...