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 …
Tag Archives: War
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: German Armies Deep in Belgium; Belgian Army Retreats to Antwerp; Wilson Calls for Neutrality
On August 18, King Albert (and commander in chief of the army) ordered a general retreat of the Belgian army …
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 …
20 Million, Off to War
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 …
On War Resistance
“If in any country whatever a recruiting campaign were to be launched today for some utterly preposterous war, a war …
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 …