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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

London on the First Armistice Day

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Londoners at the Queen Victoria Memorial, 11 November1918 As reported by American War Correspondent Edgar Bramwell Piper: The armistice was ...
Monday, November 10, 2025

The Origins of the War? — There's Too Damn Much Documentation and You Can't Trust the Memoirs!

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Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 The historian who seeks to understand the genesis of the First World War...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

How the Germans Underestimated the Tommies (At Least Early On)

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  By George Kerevan As a consequence of the long intermarriage of the British and German royal families, upper-class Germans knew upper-clas...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

The Attack of the Dead Men: The Russian Defense of Osowiec Fortress – Video

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From your Editor:   The narration of this video is overly dramatic and some the details presented sound shaky, but it's a whale of a sto...
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Friday, November 7, 2025

The Wartime Paintings of German Soldier Hans Baluschek

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Introduction: Hans Baluschek (1870–1935) was a German painter, graphic artist and writer. Despite his age, he volunteered for army when war...
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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Remembering a Veteran: Lt. Orlando Henderson Petty, MD, United States Navy (Assigned 5th Marines) MoH

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Lieutenant Orlando Petty (Apparently Prior to Presentation of the Medal of Honor) By John F. Andrews Orlando H. Petty was born on 20 Februar...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Financial Finagling in the Great War: The Pittman Act of 1918

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The Owners of Nevada's Crown Point Mine Benefited from the WWI Legislation By James Patton Back in the 1950s I was interested in coin co...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Dos Passos's Three Soldiers Reviewed by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  By John Dos Passos George H. Doran Company, 1921 F. Scott Fitzgerald, Reviewer With the exception of a couple of tracts by Upton Sinclair,...
Monday, November 3, 2025

July 1920: Denmark Regains Some Lost Territory

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Historically Contested Schleswig-Holstein The Schleswig-Holstein question, was a 19th century controversy among Denmark, Prussia, and Austri...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Don't Miss the 1932 Version of Farewell to Arms

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In 1932, A Farewell to Arms became the first Ernest Hemingway novel to make it to the silver screen. I read once that Hemingway disliked it...
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Saturday, November 1, 2025

Remembering Canadian Military Historian Tim Cook

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Tim Cook at the Vimy Ridge Section of the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa The study of First World War History suffered a major loss this past S...
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