WWI : 140,000 French Casualties; The French Master Plan Lies in Ruins
“During the Battle of the Frontiers … 70 French divisions, or about 1,250,000 men, were in combat at different times …
Category Archives: History
The Guns of August — 100 Years Ago
It is a mark of Barbara Tuchman’s power as a writer that her ground breaking narrative history of the first month …
WW I: Children of Enemies Connect
A very nice article in the NY Times. Nicole Clark, who reports for the Times from Paris, recently retrieved her …
WW I: German Reprisals Against Belgian Civilians
“On August 23 placards signed by (German) General von Bülow were posted in Liège, Belgium, announcing that the people of …
WW I: Last Day of French Exuberance
August 15, 1914, London Daily Telegraph Ω British troop transports make 137 separate crossings of the Channel from August 14 …
WW I: German Siege Guns Terrify Liège
“By late afternoon of August 12, one of the German army’s [enormous 420 mm siege guns, 24 feet long, weighing …
WW I: Austria Invades Russian Poland;
France and Britain Declare War on Austria-Hungary
Making Memorial
Geoff Dyer’s 1994 The Missing of the Somme, published in the United States in 2011, takes us on a …
WW I: August 9: Premature Cheering
The German advance army crossed into Belgium on the 4th of August and was greatly surprised by Belgian resistance along …
WW I: Massive Peace Demonstration in Glasgow
Sunday, August 9, 1914, 5000 gather in Glasgow to shout down the just declared war. George Hardie [Scottish Labor politician …
WW I: Belgians and Germans — The Shooting Begins
The first day of actual fighting brought excited reports of German losses to the pages of the conservative Daily …
WW I: Did not Begin by ‘Slithering Over the Brink”
So today it all began, the war that took 8.5 million lives, and wounded 21.2 million more, that began the …