Roads to the Great War
Sunday, June 7, 2026

The Funeral of Edward VII Marked the End of an Age: Ten Who Were There, Part I

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By Kimball Worcester, Assistant Editor In her classic work The Guns of August , historian Barbara Tuchman begins her exploration of the open...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

Stuff One Might Find on a World War One Battlefield a Century Later

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Varlet Farm, Ypres Salient, October 1917 When I was leading tours to the Western Front, one of my favorite stops was a Varlet Farm, near the...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Did Woodrow Wilson Have the Flu in Paris?

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A Determined Looking Woodrow Wilson in London En Route to  Paris By James Patton On the night of  3 April 1919, President Woodrow Wilson beg...
Thursday, June 4, 2026

A New Set of My Favorite World War One Posters

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 I can't help myself, I love these.  MH Click on the Images to Enlarge "The Great Offensive in France" "National War Reli...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Europe's Stunning 19th Century Population Growth and the Coming of the Great War

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Paris, c. 1810 Take-Off With the flourishing of the Industrial Age in Europe, mortality rates began significantly declining  because of a co...
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Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Remembering a Veteran: Leonard H. Nason: The King of World War One Pulps

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Leonard H. Nason  Pulp Writer Par Excellence Leonard H. Nason (1895–1970) was a highly popular American novelist and magazine writer best kn...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Bombs Away! (April Fool's Day - 1915)

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I guess, I should have waited until next April 1st to publish this article, the substance of which I just discovered, but I couldn't wa...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Florida, USA, Goes to War

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  When the United States entered World War I (1914-1918) on 6 April 1917, Florida was a sparsely populated state, with only 925,641 inhabita...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Why Was Lawrence of Arabia So Disillusioned at the End of the Movie?

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Peter O'Toole as Lawrence, Claude Rains as Dryden, Jack Hawkins as Allenby At the end of Lawrence of Arabia , T.E. Lawrence is obviously...
Friday, May 29, 2026

Weapons of War: The Lebedenko or ‘Tsar’s Tank’

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  Modern Full-Scale Mockup of the Tsar's Tank in Moscow By James Patton Before World War I, the armored fighting vehicle (AFV) had been ...
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