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Sunday, April 11, 2021

"Ernie, Dear Boy": Ernest Hemingway's Dear John Letter from Agnes von Kurowsky

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I did not know of the existence of this letter until I viewed the first episode of the new PBS Hemingway series. Agnes and Ernie in Milan M...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Beaumont Hamel? It Was All About Y-Ravine

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View of the Battlefield at Newfoundland Park The Caribou Memorial Is Roughly at the Start Line of the Attack Y-Ravine (Arrow) Is Not Visible...
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Friday, April 9, 2021

Reflections on Being Wounded by Lt. Donald Hankey

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  If you are wounded, ‘Blighty’; if killed, the Resurrection! Lt. Donald Hankey, KIA, 12 October 1916 Lt. Hankey Before the War [ Ed. note: ...
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Thursday, April 8, 2021

First in at Gallipoli: The Harrowing Voyage of Australian Submarine AE2

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On 25 April 1915 as Anzacs were preparing for their dawn landings on the Gallipoli peninsula, an Australian submarine had already silently m...
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021

SAPPING AND MINING

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  by Sapper (Herman Cyril McNeile)  "Twas mentioning to you the other day that I was concerning the difference between them Prussians a...
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021

This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing: A Memoir

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by Jacqueline Winspear Soho Press, 2020 Ron Drees, Reviewer Author-to-Be and Best Selling Author Students of the ...
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Monday, April 5, 2021

Recommended: The Rock of Gallipoli — The Leadership of Mustafa Kemal

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By Major Eric T. Venditti, U.S. Army From: Military Review, Jan-Feb 2021 I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the t...
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Sunday, April 4, 2021

18 July 1918: The Aisne-Marne Counterattack — America's Part

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American Artillery Position Near Soissons By Patrick Gregory Historian John S.D. Eisenhower described it as ‘the turning point’. And certain...
Saturday, April 3, 2021

Ten Quotes of Helmuth von Moltke the Younger

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  Moltke in Retirement The nephew of Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke, architect of German victory in the Franco-Prussian War, Moltke the yo...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Mustard Gas to Chemotherapy

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By James Patton Mustard gas, the most effective chemical weapon ever developed,  wasn’t made from mustard—it just smelled sort of like it.  ...
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Thursday, April 1, 2021

The Four Chimneys of Verdun

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  On the left flank of Douaumont, and west of the destroyed village of Fleury of the Verdun battlefield is an elaborate fortification known ...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

A Symbolic Death at the Sphinx

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The Sphinx Above Anzac Cove, Gallipoli Slightly to the north of Anzac Cove is a towering, geographical feature for which the newly arrived A...
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