Roads to the Great War
Sunday, February 18, 2024

A Day at the Somme—"15 September 1916" by Wilfrid Ewart

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Excerpted from Way of Revelation: A Novel of Five Years ; Lt Ewart was a member of the 2nd Scots Guards during the attack described here. 1....
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Saturday, February 17, 2024

Fort Vaux: Before the Great Battle — A Roads Classic

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From the earliest days of that blazing month of August 1914, when the clash of nations began, Fort Vaux, plying with its questions the Wo...
Friday, February 16, 2024

The Glasgow Cenotaph

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St. George Square, Glasgow Over 200,000 Glaswegians served in the Great War—18,000 of them did not survive and 35,000 more were wounded or i...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Łódź 1914: Russia's Farthest Advance Toward Germany's Heartland

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Before the Fighting Russian Soldiers in Łódź After absorbing the disaster at Tannenberg, further clashes in East Prussia and Galicia gave th...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Toc H (Talbot House)—A Sanctuary from War That Lives On—A Roads Classic

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Talbot House or Toc H is in the Belgian town of Poperinghe, west of Ypres. It was the idea of Philip "Tubby" Clayton who want...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

The United States' Entry into the First World War: The Role of British and German Diplomacy

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By  Justin Quinn Olmstead Boydell Press, 2018 Reviewed by  Emily Cloys, University of Southern Mississippi This Title Can Be...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

Weapons of War: The Ross Rifle

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Click on Image to Enlarge The Mark II Ross Rifle By James Patton Scotsman Sir Charles Ross (1872–1942), 9th (and last) Baronet Lockhart-Ross...
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Sunday, February 11, 2024

Rutland of Jutland: From Heroism to Disgrace

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Flt. Lt. Frederick Rutland—Hero The Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916 was the great naval battle of World War One. It was also historic as it...
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Saturday, February 10, 2024

A World War One Sailor Was the First Beneficiary of Plastic Surgery

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HMS Warspite , 6-inch Gun Mount Damaged at Jutland Petty Officer Walter Ernest O'Neil Yeo (1890–1960) of the Royal Navy was the first pe...
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