Roads to the Great War
Saturday, February 19, 2022

Did Tirpitz Lose the War for Germany?

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The Kaiser,  Admiral Tirpitz, and General Moltke By Norman Friedman from "World War I: A Maritime War?" It followed that as the Ge...
Friday, February 18, 2022

Remembering a Veteran: The Little Poilu—Corentin CarrĂ© , 410 R.I., French Army—A Roads Classic

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By Christina Holstein Jean-Corentin Carré Visitors to Verdun who feel that they have seen the sights and wish to visit the wider ar...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022

The United War Work Fund

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As the end of the war drew near, President Wilson expressed a need for money to be raised for the demobilization of American soldiers and sa...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

First Gothas Over London

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. . . Innocent people had been made to suffer through malicious attacks which could not in any way affect the outcome of the war. It pleases...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

The First Tank Crews: The Lives of the Tankmen Who Fought at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, 15 September 1916

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By Stephen Pope Helion & Company Ltd., 2016 Ron Drees, Reviewer Successful Tank D-17, Crew, and Supporting Infant...
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Monday, February 14, 2022

Tony Fokker's Three Masterpieces — A Roads Classic

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Anton Herman Gerard Fokker (1890–1939) is the most renowned aircraft designer of the Great War.  Had designed his first airplane at ...
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Sunday, February 13, 2022

Notre Dame de Paris at War

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Light Show Commemorating the Centenary of the Great War The latest National Geographic arrived in the mail the other day, and it features t...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

Eyewitness: Second Ypres, April 1915

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Canadian soldier Fred Adams wrote the following letter on 2 May 1915, to his aunt after experiencing the first German gas attack of the Firs...
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Friday, February 11, 2022

Was World War I Experienced as a Premonition of Apocalypse?

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Vision of New York City Bombed in a Future War In a 1991 American political scientist John Mueller examined attitudes about the Great War—in...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

The AEF's Greatest Artillery Barrage: 1 November 1918 (Part 2) — the View from the 2nd Division

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Open Fire The barrage plan was so constructed that throughout the advance, the entire corps front of more than eight kilometers would be cov...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

AEF's Greatest Artillery Barrage: 1 November 1918 (Part 1) — the View from First Army

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Earlier in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive [On 1 November 1918] the artillery acquitted itself magnificently, the barrages being so well coordin...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Gallipoli Diary 1915

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By Alec Riley (Author); Michael Crane and Bernard de Broglio (Editors) Little Gully Publishing, 2021 David F. Beer, Revie...
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