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 …
Category Archives: Books
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 …
WWI: August Dead
“According to Armées Françaises, French casualties in the month of August alone amounted to 206,515, including killed , wounded , …
WW I: Louvain Goes Up in Flames: 230,000 Volumes in Library
“On August 25 the burning of Louvain began. The medieval city on the road from Liège to Brussels was renowned …
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 …
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 …
Beware of Pity – Says Forgotten Austrian Novelist
“Beware of Pity.” Who would think to proffer such advice, in a novel no less, repeatedly and in great detail? …