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...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Muleskinner with the Marine Brigade, 1917-1919

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Cpl. Alpheus Appenheimer, U.S.M.C. Sixth Machine Gun Battalion, 4th Brigade of Marines, 2nd Division, AEF (Volume 1: April 1917—May 1918) by...
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...