Roads to the Great War
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War
Reviewed by Robert Warwick

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Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War by Nicholas Lambert Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2012 In t...
Monday, May 11, 2015

In Germany: A Fresh Evaluation of the War Is Emerging

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I found this interesting interview at Deutsche Welle (DW) Germany's international broadcasting network. (By the way, we don't nece...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

More War Dogs at War

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Animal features always provide a boost in our readership, so allow me to flagrantly play to the crowd. Supply Detail Stringing W...
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Saturday, May 9, 2015

100 Years Ago Today: The Final Fight for Notre Dame de Lorette Begins

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Notre Dame de Lorette Today: Site of the Largest French Cemetery on the Western Front The Visitors Are Examining the Ring of Remembranc...
Friday, May 8, 2015

Out of War and Revolution: Another Tower of Babel

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Artist's Conception of Petrograd's New Skyline In 1915 Lenin proposed the creation of a new International to promote “civil...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

News of the Lusitania Arrives at the World's Fair

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Fair Grounds in What Is Now San Francisco's Marina District (Golden Gate sans Bridge to Far Left) There was a World's Fair ...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

100 Years Ago: German Forces Retake Hill 60 at Ypres

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The site known as Hill 60 southeast of Ypres was so called on British military maps because the contoured height of the ground was marked ...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Scandinavia in the First World War
Reviewed by Jane Mattisson Ekstam

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Scandinavia in the First World War: Studies in the War Experience of the Northern Neutrals Claes Ahlund (ed.) Lund: Nordic Academic P...
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Monday, May 4, 2015

South Africa's Victory in Southwest Africa

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The July 1915 conquest of German Southwest Africa was a marked triumph for the British campaign in Africa. The Southwest Africa campaign ...
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Sunday, May 3, 2015

100 Years Ago Today: John McCrae Writes "In Flanders Fields"

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A native of Guelph, Ontario, and a veteran of the South African War (1899 -1902), John McCrae began the First World War as a surgeon attac...
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Saturday, May 2, 2015

Bad Luck for the Name Von Spee in South America

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The Admiral Before His Demise Both Admiral Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubertus, Reichsgraf von Spee of the the Imperial German Navy ...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Recommended: A Primer on Trench Warfare

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What was it really like in the trenches?  Here's a typical day for the troops. This is from a BBC production by historian Dan Sn...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Remembering a Veteran: Roland Garros — The Man Who Put Wings on War

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By Stephen Miller Prewar Photo of Garros Just about 100 years ago, on 1 April 1915, French aviator Roland Garros shot down his fi...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The Lost Sketchbooks: A Young Artist in the Great War
Reviewed by David Beer

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The Lost Sketchbooks: A Young Artist in the Great War By Rex Passion, with drawings by Edward Shenton Komatik Press, 2014 It...
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Monday, April 27, 2015

Paderewski: Internationally Renowned Pianist and Polish Patriot

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Jan Paderewski at the Piano Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941) was a world-renowned pianist who used his fame to campaign in the ser...
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