Roads to the Great War
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Hold That Position At All Costs? Przemyśl (WWI) vs Bastogne (WWII)

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Some of the 130,000 Austro-Hungarian Prisoners Taken at Przemyśl  By Franz-Stefan Gady Originally Published in War On the Rocks, 2 December ...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Lonesome Memorials #22: An Unusual and Evocative War Memorial in Vácrátót, Hungary

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  By James Patton In a manner of speaking, Hungary was the junior partner of the junior partner to Germany and Austria in the Central Powers...
Friday, February 13, 2026

The Answer Was Honor: When Two Political Scientists Asked: Why the First World War Lasted So Long?

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Michael Hunzeker and Alexander Lanoszka  Originally Published in the Washington Post , 11 November 2018 . . . Scholars have long debated its...
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Thursday, February 12, 2026

World War I and Chicago (Again!): Baseball and the Star Spangled Banner

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The United States formally entered World War I on  6 April 1917 and the first global conflict in human history affected virtually everyone i...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Chicago's World War One Extravaganza

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The 1918 U.S. Government War Exposition in Chicago’s Grant Park (Sept 2–15) was a massive, two-week, propaganda-driven event designed to boo...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

An American Soldier in the Great War: The World War I Diary and Letters of Elmer O. Smith.

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By John DellaGiustina   Hellgate Press, 2015 Reviewed by Michael P. Kihntopf       Elmer Smith's Unit, the 119th Field Artillery, Marchi...
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Monday, February 9, 2026

AI Says Tsar Alexander II (1818–1881) Caused World War One

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AI-Generated WWI Image (See Something Not Quit Right?) Editor's Introduction:  In my ongoing effort to find fresh material for our reade...
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Sunday, February 8, 2026

George Grosz's Gott mit Uns

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Click on Images to Enlarge Display = 580px, Large = 800px In June 1920, German veteran and artist George Grosz produced a lithographic colle...
Saturday, February 7, 2026

"Stabbed in the Back"—A Wonderful Example of War Hysteria

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  Published in the Medina, Ohio, Sentinel , 11 October 1918
Friday, February 6, 2026

The Great "What If" of World War I: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand Fails

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  Archduke Franz Ferdinand and a Smiling Kaiser Wilhelm II By Jack S. Levy and William Mulligan Excerpted from: "Why 1914 but Not Befor...
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Thursday, February 5, 2026

Siegfried Sassoon in Palestine

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On the rock-strewn hills I heard The anger of guns that shook Echoes along the glen. In my heart was the song of a bird, And the sorrowless ...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

The Spirit of ‘76: The Patriotic Epic That Collided with America's Espionage Act

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Producer Robert Goldstein With the Cast of The Spirit of '76 By Mark Levitch, National Gallery of Art In 1918, producer Robert Goldstein...
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