Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The Great War and Modernism Series
The New Death: American Modernism and World War 1
Reviewed by Jane Mattisson Ekstam

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The New Death: American Modernism and World War 1 By Pearl James Published by University of Virginia Press, 2013 The final summer ...
Monday, September 16, 2013

A New Series:
The Great War and Modernism

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The Great War and Modernism: An Introduction By Jane Mattisson You might ask, “What is modernism and what has it got to do with the...
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Intense British Anti-German Propaganda Posters

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Roads contributor Sidney Clark has sent four examples from his collection of British posters from the Great War that seem solely intended...
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Saturday, September 14, 2013

How Important Was the Arab Revolt?

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THE ARAB REVOLT 1916–1918:  SUCCESS or SUSPECT? By Neil Dearberg Click on Image to Expand Key Actors in the Arab Revolt Aus...
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Friday, September 13, 2013

St. Mihiel Offensive, Part II:
Victory Commemorated

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Yesterday, we presented a review of the St. Mihiel Offensive as it was fought in 1918. Even though the subsequent battle, the Meuse-Argon...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

12 September 1918: The St. Mihiel Offensive Opens

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Quick Facts About the St. Mihiel Offensive: Where: Southeast of Verdun When:   12 – 16  September 1918 Allied Units Participatin...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Russian Expeditionary Force in France

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Click on Image to Expand Russian Expeditionary Force Memorial, 8th Arrondissement, Paris Why is there a Russian World War I mo...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Hell’s Observer: The Epic Wartime Journal of Private William J. Graham
Reviewed by Jolie Velasquez

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Hell’s Observer: The Epic Wartime Journal of Private William J. Graham, American Expeditionary Forces Transcribed and Edited by C. ...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Remembering a Veteran:
Nurse Helen Fairchild, U.S. Army, Base Hospital 10

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Nurse Helen Fairchild Click on Image to Expand In January 1918 a family in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, received this lette...
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Sunday, September 8, 2013

99 Years Ago: Quotes from September 1914

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September 1914 Click on Image to Expand A drawing of early trench warfare during the September 1914 post-Marne fighting along t...
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Saturday, September 7, 2013

Full-Color Aviation Images
from the Collection of Tony Langley

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Regular Roads contributor Tony Langley's vast collection of World War I photos and illustrations from wartime includes some terrific ...
Friday, September 6, 2013

The Great War's Most Memorable Religious Event
The Apparitions at Fatima

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Click on Image to Expand Lucia dos Santos, Cousins Francisco and Jacinta Martos The three intense-looking children in the photo ...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

5 September 1914 — The Battle of the Marne Begins a Day Early at Villeroy

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Opening Moves of the Battle of the Marne (Western Section Only) The Kaiser’s forces had spent the first month in the west appar...
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Beersheba and Gaza Captured in Third Battle of Gaza, October & November 1917

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In late 1917, the appointment of General Edmund Allenby as theater commander led to a re-energized British effort in Egypt and Palestine. ...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I
Reviewed by David F. Beer

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Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I By Michael S. Neiberg Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard Universi...
Monday, September 2, 2013

28 June 1919, Palace of Versailles,
7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor,
2 September 1945, USS Missouri,
Any Connections?

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Of course, the main connection is that the two end events were the ceremonial endings of the two greatest wars in history. But there is an...
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Sunday, September 1, 2013

The Case of the Invisible World War I Art Show

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Your editor prides himself on keeping up with the latest news regarding the First World War. Contacts from around the world send me email...

Hot Off the Presses:
The September St. Mihiel Trip-Wire

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The September issue of our sister publication, the St. Mihiel Trip-Wire is now online at: www.worldwar1.com/tripwire/smtw.htm If y...