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Monday, June 22, 2026

Remembering a Veteran: Lt. Dana Coates, 11th Aero Squadron, USAS

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  Cadet Pilot Dana Coates with Sopwith F1 Camel By Gareth Morgan, Western Front Association Dana Edmond Coates was born in Lodgepole, Nebras...
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Sunday, June 21, 2026

The Bats of Verdun

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Bechstein’s Bat ( Myotis bechsteinii )  One of 15 Species of Bat Populating the Verdun Battlefield During my days leading tours of the Weste...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Lonesome Memorial #25 Memorial Germânico do Passo Pordoi

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  These Images Can All Be Enlarged by Clicking on Them Fighting in the Dolomites during World War I was a brutal, high-altitude struggle aga...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Who Was John A. Hobson?

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John A. Hobson (1858–1940) was a highly influential British economist, teacher (on the far outskirts of academia), elected official (twice M...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

The Rise of the Arms Industry and the Coming of World War

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By T. Hunt Tooley from "Merchants of Death Revisited: Armaments, Bankers and the First World War" We may certainly say the First W...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

America's Children at War

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America's schoolchildren served on the home front during World War I. Although American children were geographically removed from the ph...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

The First World War in the Baltic Sea: Volume I: Essen’s triumph, 1914 to February 1915

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By Mark Harris Helion and Company, 2025 Reviewed by Jim Gallen Russian Armored Cruiser Rurik , Launched 1908 Roads to the Great War readers...
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Monday, June 15, 2026

The Men Who Brought the Doctrine of the Offensive à Outrance to the French Army

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The Siege of Paris, 1871 by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier By Charles W. Sanders, Jr. The Disgrace of Sedan The search for doctrine was a majo...
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Sunday, June 14, 2026

Eyewitness: "I Saw Rheims Cathedral Burn"

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  Click on Images Below If Reading on Small Device The Cathedral Today Source:  The Great War, "I Was There" – Undying Memories of...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

Remembering a Veteran: Captain Robert Gee, VC, MC, 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers

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Born on 7 May 1876 in Leicester (England), Robert Gee  was orphaned at age nine and lived in a workhouse and orphanage until he joined the 4...
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