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  • The Irish in WW I – a preview

    30 May 2017

    I am some way into Sebastian Barry’s 2005, A Long Long Way.  The language is so inventive and surprising that…

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  • Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

    02 Feb 2017

    It is hard to visualize, walking around Modena or  Cremona or Verona, Italy as I have recently, that gangs of…

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  • The Twenty-Three Days of the City of Alba

    30 Nov 2016

    World traveling, wine loving tourists might be forgiven for not associating the famed, vine-covered hills of Piemonte, Italy, with savage, civil…

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  • Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War….

    02 Feb 2016

    The civil war in Spain, 1936-1939, was the dark warning to the world of the war to follow, in almost every…

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  • Refugees Today and Yesterday

    19 Sep 2015

    This started out as a post about two movies — about refugees– but talking about movies before actualities seemed just…

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  • Rome, Open City, 1945

    14 Sep 2015

    The Nazi occupation of Rome ended on June 2, 1944, nine months after it had begun, four days before the…

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  • WWI: The Government Abandons Paris

    08 Sep 2014

    On September 3, 1914, a sentence surely found in the duplicative archives of human warfare, was released to the people…

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  • WWI: August Dead

    01 Sep 2014

    “According to Armées Françaises, French casualties in the month of August alone amounted to 206,515, including killed , wounded ,…

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  • WW I: Louvain Goes Up in Flames: 230,000 Volumes in Library

    25 Aug 2014

    “On August 25 the burning of Louvain began. The medieval city on the road from Liège to Brussels was renowned…

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  • WWI : 140,000 French Casualties; The French Master Plan Lies in Ruins

    24 Aug 2014

    “During the Battle of the Frontiers … 70 French divisions, or about 1,250,000 men, were in combat at different times…

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  • WW I: Children of Enemies Connect

    22 Aug 2014

    A very nice article in the NY Times.  Nicole Clark, who reports for the Times from Paris, recently retrieved her…

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  • WW I: German Reprisals Against Belgian Civilians

    21 Aug 2014

    “On August 23 placards signed by (German) General von Bülow were posted in Liège, Belgium, announcing that the people of…

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