WW I: Austria-Hungary sends troops to the Serbian frontier
July 20, 1914 Austria-Hungary sends troops to the Serbian frontier
Category Archives: War
WW I: On the Eastern Front in The Forest of the Hanged
World War I as it is written of and imagined in European and American minds is almost entirely of what …
WW I: Germany Impatient with Austro-Hungary Indecision
On July 12, 1914 Ambassador Count Laslo Szögyény reported from Berlin that everyone in the German government wanted to see Austria-Hungary declare …
WW I: War Preparations Grip Austria-Hungary
On July 9, 1914 Austria-Hungary Foreign Minister Leopold Berchtold advised Emperor Franz Joseph that he would present Belgrade, [Serbia] with an ultimatum …
A Soldier on the Southern Front — Italy, WW I
World War I brought with it some 10 million combatant deaths, 23 million wounded. Two and one half million non combatants died from fire and …
Beneath Hill 60 — WW I: Courage and Massacre
I don’t know if the Aussies are the “best billiard players, best horsemen and best miners in the world” as …
Redeployment – Stories From A War
Phil Klay’s slender volume of short fiction, coming from a 13 month tour in Iraq, delivers what we want from …
Clouds Above the Hill — Japan’s Good Wars
Shiba Ryōtarō is said to be one of Japan’s favorite authors. Prolific in multiple genres, he’s credited with over 500 …
Omar – Love and Betrayal in an Occupied Land
Let’s do a thought experiment about a movie. In it, an occupying army has a stranglehold on the local populace. …
Chico — War in Croatia, and the World
Though war movies and novels are overwhelmingly about large nation-state wars occasionally one breaks through about the smaller scale national …
Hidden Battles: War Trauma Across Cultures
Hidden Battles is an accomplished documentary bringing us 5 war participants-as-fighters and the years that have followed them: Israeli soldier, …
Ethics for Wars to Come
Samuel G Freedman in his always interesting once-a-week column On Region in the New York Times, features Robert H Latiff, …