Roads to the Great War
Friday, January 23, 2026

The Fate of the Generals Who Remained Loyal to Nicholas II

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  They Did Not Betray Their Oath Generals Nikolai Ivanov, Fyodor Keller and Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski By Paul Gilbert Originally Presented a...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

The Battle of Rawa (also known as Rawa Ruska), 3--11 September 1914

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James Patton On 23 August1914, the Austrian k.u.k. ( kaiserlich und königlich ) army boldly launched a pre-emptive strike in Galicia agains...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

The Rise of Billy Mitchell

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Billy Mitchell (1879-1936) By James J. Cooke, University of Mississippi Forever associated with the rise of American airpower, Billy Mitchel...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Britain's Jews in the First World War

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By Paula Kitchens   Amberley Publishing, 2019 Reviewed by Michael P. Kihntopf   Members of the 38th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers All-Jewish Un...
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Monday, January 19, 2026

Three Surprising Numbers from the Great War:     158    &     771,844    &    1,294

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158  is the number of countries involved in some way in the First World War. It includes countries that did not declare war on anyone but ma...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Rosa Zenoch: Austrian Child War Hero of the Battle of Rawa

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Rosa the Wounded Heroine James Patton Children’s heroes from 1914 to 1918 reflected the historicization of the war. German child war heroes,...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

The Nye Committee's Pursuit of the Merchants of Death

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1935 Portrayal of the Merchants of Death On a hot Tuesday morning following Labor Day in 1934, several hundred people crowded into the Caucu...
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Friday, January 16, 2026

Gièvres—Hub of the AEF's Supply Chain

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The Refrigeration Plant at Gièvres General Pershing's AEF constructed its largest intermediate supply depot at Gièvres, Loire-et-Cher, F...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Remembering a Veteran: John Francis Lucy, Royal Irish Rifles — Soldier, Memoirist, Public Servant, Artist

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Lucy: Young Sergeant John Francis Lucy, (1894–1962), British army officer and author, was born on 6 January 1894 at 4 Rock Terrace, Cork, th...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Woodrow Wilson's Early Responses to the European War

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By Richard Striner, Washington College Originally presented on History News Network , 1 June 2014  The case can be made that Woodrow Wilson ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

The Politics of the First World War

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  By Scott Wolford  Cambridge University Press, 2019 The Great War is an immense, confusing, and overwhelming historical conflict—the ideal ...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Was the Titanic a Premonition of the Great War?

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Titanic, name and thing, will stand as a monument and  warning to human presumption. The Bishop of Winchester, at Southampton, 1912 Since it...
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