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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Retreat: A Story of 1918

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By Charles R. Benstead The University of South Carolina Press, 2008 David F. Beer, Reviewer Retreating British Soldiers in an ...
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Monday, May 13, 2019

Map Series #6: The Isonzo Sector of the Italian Front

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I found this map in a compilation of New York Times Mid-Week Pictorials that were published during the war.  After three visits to this ...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

Wounded at Blanc Mont

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by C.A. Brannen, 6th Marines USMC Carl Brannen, USMC The American attack in the Argonne would begin on 26 September, a scant ten d...
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Saturday, May 11, 2019

Winston Churchill's Closest Call on the Western Front

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Churchill on the Western Front Ploegsteert Wood was a sector of the Western Front in Flanders in World War I, part of the Ypres Salie...
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Friday, May 10, 2019

The Return of “New York’s Own”

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"New York's Own" Two Stalwarts of the 77th Division in France  By Keith Muchowski In late March we wrote of New Yo...
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Thursday, May 9, 2019

Our Monthly World War One Online Newsletter

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Our May 2019 issue of the St. Mihiel Trip-Wire is now available at: http://www.worldwar1.com/tripwire/smtw.htm (Click Refresh/Rel...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Remembering a Veteran: Major Carl A. (Tooey) Spatz, U.S. Air Service

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General Carl A. Spaatz was the first chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.  He started his career in 1914 as an infantry...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

The Battle of Mont St. Quentin-Peronne, 1918,

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By Michele Bomford Big Sky Publishing, 2015 Peter L. Belmonte, Reviewer Australian Troops Approach the Crest of Mont St. Quent...
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Monday, May 6, 2019

Ireland's First World War Veterans: Shunned, Ostracized, Murdered

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A Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Stands Inspection in France Over 200,000 Irishmen served in the British Army in the war. ...
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Sunday, May 5, 2019

The French-Kitchener Meeting of 1 September 1914

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Sir John French and the Earl Kitchener One of the most momentous meetings of the Great War occurred just before the Battle of the ...
Saturday, May 4, 2019

World War I Battlefield Surgery: Outstanding Video from Britain's National Army Museum

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Friday, May 3, 2019

Captured at Kut-al-Amara: A Letter from a Prisoner of War

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Column of Prisoners Taken at Kut-al-Amara The author of this letter, Captain Ian Martin, served as a doctor with the Indian Medica...
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Thursday, May 2, 2019

WWI: When the Wristwatch Routed the Pocket Watch

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The wristwatch was invented by Patek Philippe at the end of the 19th century. It was, however, considered a woman's accessory. I...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

“WOODBINE WILLY” -- By David F. Beer

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Before the First World War broke out, the Reverend Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy was a fairly obscure Church of England vicar—p...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Canada and the Battle of Vimy Ridge

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Brereton Greenhous and Stephen J. Harris Canadian Dept. of Supply and Services, 1992 James Patton, Reviewer Canadian Soldiers ...
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Monday, April 29, 2019

What Was the Fokker Scourge?

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Fokker's Eindecker E.III in Flight Up to early 1915, aerial fights between aircraft usually involved rifles or pistols; occ...
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