By Derek Varble The Victim Robert Paul Prager was born on 28 February 1888 in Dresden, Germany. He emigrated from Germany to Baltimore, Mary...

Commander Edward Bingham, RN, (1881–1939) saw notable service at sea during the early years of the war aboard battlecruiser HMS Invincible ...

A Fanciful Depiction of the Initial Landing in Cuba The Coming of War [When war with Spain was decided] A desperately overworked and underst...

Brooke Anderson The American 19th century was one of growth and consolidation. By the end of the century we had become an industrial nation ...

  Return of the  Mayflower Painting by Bernard F. Gribble. U.S. Naval Academy By Paul Halpern The United States Navy entered the First World...

By Thomas Keneally Penguin Books, 2013 Jay Jarini, Reviewer,  The Guardian ,  9 November 2012 War has been a fixation in the novels of Thoma...

 

Two Exhausted Doughboys "Off Duty" By Harvey Dunn Almost 70,000 U.S. men in World War One were permanently evacuated from the line...

An Italian Army Dressing Station In 1932 Ernest Hemingway, as an extra-feature to his bullfighting treatise Death in the Afternoon , include...

Recently in an article on Siegfried Sassoon, we mentioned he had been included on the "Poets of the First World War Memorial" at W...

I've previously presented  a major article on the Great Retreat of the Serbian Army in 1915, and on its subsequent return to action on t...