Roads to the Great War
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Raoul Lufbery and Marc Pourpe: From The Birth Of Aviation to the Lafayette Escadrille

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By Jacques Mortane, updated by Dennis Gordon and Raoul Lufbery III  Schiffer Military 2023  Adrian Roberts, Reviewer Marc Pourpe This volume...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Forgotten German Heroes of the Dardanelles Naval Defense of 18 March 1915

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German Naval Officers and Sailors Manning an Observation Post on the Dardanelles Ayhan Aktar, Chair Professor, Istanbul Bilgi University It ...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

America Demobilizes the AEF

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The 26th Yankee Division Arrives in Boston aboard USS Agamemnon , 7 April 1919 The U.S. Army was utterly unprepared to demobilize its unprec...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

The Kaiserliche Marine's Raid on Zanzibar (Video)

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Friday, December 12, 2025

The Havoc of War from the National Archives

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I've discovered a treasure chest of World War One photographs from the U.S. National Archives labelled "Havoc of War" availabl...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

King George V's Battlefield Pilgrimage

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  As our dead were equal in sacrifice, so are they equal in honour, for the greatest and the least of them have proved that sacrifice and ho...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Last Survivor of the Big Four: Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

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Orlando: Official Portrait Vittorio Orlando (1860–1952) was an Italian statesman and prime minister during the concluding years of World War...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

A Recommended World War One Author: Edward Lengel

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If you have been watching Ken Burns's American Revolution series on PBS, you'll recognize historian Edward Lengel, who provides expe...
Monday, December 8, 2025

U-boat Art from Germany

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Whatever you think about U-boat warfare or the Lusitania , etc., Germany was really proud of its submarine fleet. It's not high art, but...
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Sunday, December 7, 2025

A Roads Classic:
28 June 1919, Palace of Versailles,
7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor,
2 September 1945, USS Missouri,
Any Connections?

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Of course, the main connection is that the two end events were the ceremonial endings of the two greatest wars in history. But there is an...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

The Supreme Failure of Conrad von Hötzendorf

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General Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf,  Austrian Chief of Staff In all my reading during the centennial commemoration of the war, one major ac...
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