Roads to the Great War
Friday, July 11, 2025

Death of a Caproni Bomber Pilot

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Contributed by Ted Huscher [ Ed. Note . Aero-historian Ted Huscher  discovered the description  of this action in the photo-diary of Hungari...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Whence the Russian Army After Tannenberg?

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Russian Prisoner Column, Post-Tannenberg From David Stone's  The Russian Army in the Great War, Univ. of Kansas Press, 2015 The sacrific...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Private Harold Ross and the Staff of The Stars and Stripes

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Background The  Stars and Stripes  was the service newspaper of the American Expeditionary Forces, written, edited and published by men from...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

A Short History of the First World War by Gary Sheffield

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  American Troops with German Prisoners George Harding By Gary Sheffield One World Publications, 2014 Squadron Leader Paul Withers, RAF, Rev...
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Monday, July 7, 2025

War Story: Dundee, Scotland

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The Dundee Law War Memorial Overlooking the City Dundee—one of the eight major cities of Scotland—was declining economically at the time of ...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

The Scope of Suffering and Traumatization During World War I

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Mealtime in the Trenches by Otto Dix Maarten Van Son et al. The years of World War I, 1914–1918, were a time of immense suffering, not only ...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

6 April 1918: Woodrow Wilson's Most War-Like Speech

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After President Wilson brought America into the war in April 1917, much of what he shared publicly about his war aims seemed to be a continu...
Friday, July 4, 2025

July Fourth 1917: America Marches Over There and Over Here

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Westminster Bridge, London By Stuart Irwin The Fourth of July holiday is an occasion for the United States of America to celebrate and comme...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Field Marshal Edmund Allenby on the Death of Lawrence of Arabia

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Only Known Photo of Both Lawrence and Allenby BBC Radio Interview, 22 May 1935  I have lost a good friend and a valued comrade. Lawrence was...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Eyewitness: A Yank Reporter with the Turks at the Dardanelles

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Turkish Warships at the Golden Horn, Constantinople Arthur Ruhl Reporting, May 1915 Constantinople was but a string of lights across Galata ...
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