Today is the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Battle of Verdun. Using my editor's utilities, I can see that to-date, afte...

American's Preparedness Movement spontaneously began in 1914 as it became apparent to many that the country was not prepared for the t...

Just before he retired from the British Army Major General J.F.C. Fuller, brilliant historian and military theorist, fascist sympathize...

First Biggles Collection, 1932 Captain James "Biggles" Bigglesworth is one of the great literary creations from the First W...

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East by Eugene Rogan Basic Books, 2015 One of my favorite movies is the...

General Yudenich While almost everyone, including historians, would rate Alexei Brusilov the best Russian commander of the war, a ca...

I was reading an online issue of Colliers Weekly which had an article by Winston Churchill on Verdun. Then I came across this two-page sp...

More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for t...

Last Saturday after morning chores and a shopping run to Trader Joe's, I decided to dedicate the afternoon to some detailed planning f...

By Keith Muchowski Secretary of War Lindley M. Garrison resigned 100 years ago today. When he did, it was the second major resignation...

Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden Folio Society, 1989 Edmund Blunden Edmund Blunden was training as a volunteer with th...

In 1918, even though the Macedonian Front occupied more than 1,000,000 men on its battlefields, its memory in Greece and Bulgaria today is ...

The picturesque hill town of Rovereto - City of the Ancient Oak -- lies in the Trentino region of Italy about halfway between Milan and ...

All great events generate legends that magnify or distort the actual proceedings, and that is certainly true of the Battle of the Somme. ...

By James Patton Polygon Wood is a small forest in Belgium a few miles east of Ypres. In 1914 there was a racecourse and a Belgian ...

Lieutenant (JG), David S. Ingalls on 24 September 1918 scored his fifth victory in six weeks flying a Sopwith Camel with 213 Squadron of t...

The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War I by Robert Asprey William Morrow, 1991 Germa...

In World War One, whole nations and not merely professional armies were in mortal combat. Propaganda was global, with a clear message. Hat...