Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Poland's Absent World War I Memorials: Introduction
By Rodney Earl Walton

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Absent Polish Memorials: Overview Click on Image to Expand Soldiers of the Eastern Front: Polish, Russian, Austrian Shouldn't ...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation's Humanitarian Awakening
Reviewed by Margaret Spratt

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Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation's Humanitarian Awakening By Julia F. Irwin Published by Oxford Univers...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Remembering a Veteran
Captain Benjamin L. Agler, Supply Train, 4th Division, AEF

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Click on Image to Expand Captain Benjamin L. Agler after the Armistice Benjamin L. Agler of Youngstown, OH, volunteered for t...
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Sunday, August 11, 2013

An American Couple Goes to War, Part I
by World War I Author Stephen Harris

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John Redwood Fisher, AFS Ambulance Section Two, and Dorothy Canfield, Author Captain Fisher (On the Right) and Dorothy Canfield ...
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Saturday, August 10, 2013

The Centennial at the Grass Roots
(New Series)
The Michigan in World War I Project

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In Roads to the Great War  we are going to give all the support we can to groups and individuals who are starting to work on making the c...
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Friday, August 9, 2013

Just Who Were the Polar Bears?

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Click on Image to Expand    Polar Bear Expedition Monument, Troy, Michigan The American military intervention at Archangel, Russ...
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Thursday, August 8, 2013

99 Years Ago
Quotes from August 1914

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Are we going to have Tennyson's " Battle in the Air ," and the nations deluging the nations with blood from the air?  Now is...
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

The Good Soldier Schweik
Reviewed by Michael Kihntopf

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The Good Soldier Schweik and His Fortunes in the World War By Jaroslav Hašek, Translated by Paul Selver Published by The Sun Dial Press...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Help Roads to the Great War via Social Media

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Dear Social Media and Roads to the Great War  Subscribers, If you are enjoying our new WWI blog, please help us spread the word and...
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6 August 1915
Landings Begin at Suvla Bay

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Click on Image to Expand Suvla Bay in Distance Viewed from Chunuk Bair The concept was for the troops landing at Suvla to immediat...
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Monday, August 5, 2013

Images of a Doomed Fleet
from the Collection of Tony Langley

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Click on Image to Expand Images of a Doomed Fleet The triumphant looking admiral in the lower photo above is Maximilian von Spee....
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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Four Essential Works on the Battle of Passchendaele

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Please support Roads to the Great War and read the very best accounts of the Battle of Passchendaele. This is how we keep our free b...

The Passchendaele Battlefield
Memorable Names & Sites of Remembrance

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Since there was fighting around Ypres in every year of the war, the 160 cemeteries in the area often have casualties from a number of t...
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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Remembering a Veteran
Lance Corporal Francis Ledwidge
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
KIA - Battle of Passchendaele

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Death of a War Poet: Francis Ledwidge by David F. Beer A Soldier's Grave Then in the lull of midnight, gentle arms Lif...
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Friday, August 2, 2013

2 August 1914
First Shots and First Fatalities
on the Western Front

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Below is a monument located south of Belfort, France, in the Vosges Mountains. It celebrates Jules André Peugeot, corporal of the 44th Reg...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Five Misconceptions About the Battle of Passchendaele

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Click on Image to Expand Images from the Battle of Passchendaele 1. The battle was a disaster because British commanders ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

31 July 1917
The Battle of Passchendaele (3rd Ypres) Opens

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The name Passchendaele has become synonymous for waste of life and pointless orders to continue the attack irrespective of the ground ...
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