Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War One
History written in text books is one thing, (hi)stories re-told from father to son, down the line of tribes and …
Author Archives: Will Kirkland
Lawrence In Arabia — the Southern Reaches of WW I
As World War I came to its bloody close in the fall of 1918 the British public had to be …
Arabs in WW I
This looks like this will be very interesting, from Al Jazeera: World War One was four years of bitter conflict from …
How Wars Begin
Among his many popular, controversial and and voluminous texts on European history, British historian A. J. P. Taylor produced one …
Fear: A Memoir from The French Trenches, WW I
Fear: A Novel of World War I by Gabriel Chevallier, 1930 is such a powerful indictment of war that in …
WW I: The Call of the Soil – Blood and Glory from France
Many of the novels written about World War I, by those who fought in it, didn’t appear until a decade …
WW I: Siegfried Sassoon As His Eyes Open
Siegfried Sassoon, despite his Germanic name, his wealthy family and Jewish heritage, became one of England’s most famous soldier-poets of …
WW I: Warning the World about the War
With very few exceptions, all the books we associate with World War I — fiction, memoir, poetry– were written after …
WW I: Austrians and Russians
In most determinations of the responsibility for the outbreak of WW I, Austria-Hungary’s invasion of Serbia comes a close second …
WWI: The Government Abandons Paris
On September 3, 1914, a sentence surely found in the duplicative archives of human warfare, was released to the people …
WW I: Coming Home from the Eastern Front
Almost everything we westerners know about WW I has to do with the Western Front, the British, the French, the …
WWI: August Dead
“According to Armées Françaises, French casualties in the month of August alone amounted to 206,515, including killed , wounded , …