Roads to the Great War
Thursday, October 19, 2023

President Wilson Comes to San Francisco to Sell the Versailles Treaty

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Wilson on Market Street in San Francisco After returning from the signing of the Versailles Treaty in June, President Wilson decided to go o...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

The Canadian Corps Takes Courcelette

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Fighting at Courcelette by Fortunino Matania The Canadians, originally in the Ypres sector, missed the first months of the Battle of the So...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire

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By Joshua A. Sanborn Oxford University Press, 2014 Reviewed by Melissa K. Stockdale, The Journal of Modern History...
Monday, October 16, 2023

The Art of Tree Camouflage

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An Example from the Western Front Observation posts were highly valuable during the First World War. Troops were locked in trench warfare an...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Notes on the Brusilov Offensive — A Roads Classic

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In June 1916 Russian armies on the Southwestern Front under the command of General Aleksei A. Brusilov broke the Austro-Hungarian lin...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Famous Frontline Rations

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Manconochie Stew and Hard Bread 1. Anzac Biscuits Cookies sent to troops in Gallipoli from kitchens back home. Originally called “Soldier...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Canada's Disproportionate Contribution to Victory

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Canadians Over the Top at Amiens by Alfred Bastien On one of my battlefield tours that was focused on the 1917 battles in Flanders, I took ...

Searching for Lt. John Kipling, Irish Guards (Video)

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

Photo Album: Alabama's Own on the Western Front

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During the World War One Centennial commemorations,  Alabama was one of the states that was deeply committed to honoring the efforts and sac...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Pétain Creates the Voie Sacrée

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"They seemed, by the Sacred Way, to ascend, through an offering without example, to the most formidable altar that man had ever erected...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

The Ottoman Army and the First World War

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By Mesut Uyar Routledge, 2021 Reviewed by Michael Tyquin   British Journal for Military History , 7.1 (2021) Ott...
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