Roads to the Great War

HMS Hood — The Most Famous BattlecruiserBy John BeattyThe Cruiser Revolution, as I call it, was a misnomer. It’s my term, I can call it what I want. But the cruiser-type warships that are bes...

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Citizens of Occupied Lille Checking the War NewsFrom James E. Connolly's The Experience of Occupation in the Nord, 1914-1918The weight of occupation, especially being forced to work against one�...

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MONUMENT TO THE ARMY DEAD  IN THE EAST AND DISTANT LANDSThe monument to the Army Dead of the Orient and the Distant Lands, or Porte d'Orient, is a First World War memorial located at the Ken...

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Click HERE to Order This TitleBy James L. AbrahamsonFree Press, 1981Reviewed by E.M.  CoffmanOriginally Presented in the Journal of American History, March 1982This author traces the moderni...

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Polish-Ukrainian Forces Parade in Kiev, 9 May 1920After Germany's collapse, a national uprising broke out in Ukraine in November 1918. The National Directory, which took over Ukraine after a vict...

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In the fall of 1914, the new German chief of staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, decided to make a major push to capture the Channel ports, since without them the British Army could neither be supplied ...

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McConnell, American Field Service DriverJames Rogers McConnell was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a prominent judge, in 1887. The family later moved to North Carolina. McConnell attended p...

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By James PattonThe Kansas City metro area is justly famous for the magnificent Liberty Memorial and Tower, which sits on the Missouri side and includes the National World War I Museum. However, w...

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Brisbane, Australia, 25 April 1916Thousands lost their lives during the Gallipoli campaign: 87,000 Ottoman Turks, 44,000 men from France and the British Empire, including 8500 Australians. Among ...

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Pflalz D.XII (NASM)The Pfalz Aircraft Company (Pfalz Flugzeugwerke) was one of Germany’s first aircraft manufacturers, but its designs were overshadowed throughout World War I by the more famou...

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The annual Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., Prize for 2023 for the best work of history in English on World War One (1914-1918) has been awarded to:Download This Book for Free in PDF Format HEREIn Addit...

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One of Dix’s early postwar paintings, which displays the harsh reality of the Weimar Germany in the style of the New Objectivity movement, is The Skat Players painted in 1920. After Germany’s...

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American Forces Marching Through Luxembourg, 24 November 1918By Brian F. Neumann and Shane D. MakowickiUnder the terms of the Armistice, the German Army surrendered 5,000 artillery pieces, 25,000...

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The poet/soldier Alan Seeger, born in New York and educated at Harvard University, lived among artists and poets in Greenwich Village, New York, and Paris, France. When the Great War engulfed Eur...

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From the Library of CongressAt Belleau Wood by Lucian Jonas (1918)General Pershing Returns Home on USS Leviathan, September 1919 Night in Souchez (Artois) by Théophile Steinlen (1917)V...

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AEF Evacuation Hospital 14, Les Islettes, FranceIn October , Surgical Team No. 51 of Base Hospital #30, which was staffed by doctors and nurses from the University of California at San Francisco,...

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Russian Troops Blockade Ukrainian Soldiers at a Base in Crimea, 10 March 2014Russian foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddlewrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russiannationalism.Winston Chur...

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To Purchase This Title Click HEREBy Jenny MacLeodOxford University Press, 2015Reviewed by Richard FultonPublished on H-Empire (April 2016) Gallipoli is one of four volumes in the Oxford Univ...

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James PattonManfred Freiherr von Richthofen (1892–1918), familiarly known as the Red Baron, was an obscure cavalry lieutenant in 1914. With the advent of static warfare, his unit was broken up ...

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Three Submarine Chasers in PortThe U.S. Navy employed a type of anti-submarine craft from which much was expected. These were the 70-ton, 110-foot wooden-hulled patrol boats with the evocative na...

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In French with French and English Subtitles

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Since I came back from my first trip to the Western Front in 1990, I have been telling everyone that you can't really appreciate what happened in the Great War until you have actually visited and...

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Near the Front Treatment at a British Wound Dressing StationThe military experience in World War I profoundly shaped the medicine practiced on the battlefield. Trenches were inherently unhealthy ...

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No revolution in Western Europe can be definitely and finally victorious as long as the present Russian state exists at its side. . . At the present time, a social revolution could be accomplishe...

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To Order This Title, Click HEREBy Correlli BarnettWilliam Morrow & Co., 1963Reviewed by Desmond PoundOriginally presented in the New York Times, 21 June 1964To write the biography of an indiv...

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