Friday, April 10, 2026

Railroads: Strategic Necessity and Vulnerability for First World War Armies

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Restored WWI French Train The First World War began and ended on rails. The mobilizations of the powers were accomplished with thousands of ...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

A Second Blank Check? When Poincaré Went to St. Petersburg

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President Poincaré and Tsar Nicholas II in St. Peterburg On 20 July 1914 French Presided Raymond Poincaré and Prime Minister/ Foreign Minist...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Fall of 1915 — The Season of Failed Allied Western Front Offensives

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In September 1915, French commander-in-chief Joseph Joffre initiated a double offensive on both faces of the German salient into France, nor...
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Three Sons for the Kaiser: A German Family’s Sacrifice in the First World War

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By Hazel Strouts Pen and Sword Military, 2025 Reviewed by David F. Beer Some Typical German Families During the War Initially I expected thi...
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Monday, April 6, 2026

Remembering a Veteran: Capt. Fred Zinn, French Foreign Legion & U.S. Army Air Service

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Fred Zinn in His French and American Uniforms By James Patton Recently The Military Times ran a feature article by Jon Guttman about how, o...
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Sunday, April 5, 2026

When the German Army Helped Preserve a Renaissance Masterpiece

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Click on Image to Enlarge This triptych, commonly known as  both the Passion of the Christ and the  Calvary of Hattonchâtel , by Ligier Ric...
Saturday, April 4, 2026

Lonesome Memorials #23 — Parsons, West Virginia

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Click on Images to Enlarge Parsons  is a small town (population 1,327) in Tucker County, West Virginia. It takes the service of its veterans...
Friday, April 3, 2026

Historians Paul Kennedy and Fritz Fischer on the Lasting Significance of WWI War Planning

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1909 The strategic planning of the Great Powers prior to 1914 has been a topic of continual fascination to historians for both military and ...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Grasping Verdun — An Orderly Overview of the War's Most Chaotic Battle

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On 21 February 1916 the longest and, arguably, the most famous battle of the Great War began, the Battle of Verdun. One hundred and ten year...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

First American to Die in the Great War?—Remembering Edward Mandell Stone, French Foreign Legion

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The First American to die in the First World War was Harvard graduate, Edward Mandell Stone (1888–1915).  He completed his work for the A.B....
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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Ten Float Planes Over El Afule—The Naval Air Raid That Stopped a Railway

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Wing Commander Charles Rumney Samson's Favorite Floatplane, Short 8372, Over Port Said By I.M. Burns Excerpted from  Floatplanes Over Th...
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Monday, March 30, 2026

Chasing the U-Boat: The U.S. Navy Initiates Anti-Submarine Warfare, May–June 1917

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U.S. Navy Four-Stacker Destroyer with a Convoy Despite internal Navy opposition to sending destroyers to Europe, the Navy did so, and by Jun...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

Italy Goes to War and Discovers It's Going to Be a Long Grind

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General Luigi Cadorna Italian Chief of Staff Luigi Cadorna, having learnt of the Treaty of London, accepted the orders but declared that the...
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