WW I: Germans (Some) Call for Peace
The Social Democrats, the largest party in the German national legislature, were strongly opposed to the oncoming war. Its literature was …
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WW I: Ultimatum to the Serbs Approved by Germany
July 22, 1914 The final text of the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia is provided in advance to the German Embassy on July …
WW I: French Russian Summit Signals ‘Concern’ to Austria
On July 20, 1914 French President Raymond Poincaré and his Prime Minister René Viviani, arrive in St Petersburg for a Russo-French …
WW I: Austria-Hungary sends troops to the Serbian frontier
July 20, 1914 Austria-Hungary sends troops to the Serbian frontier
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 …
The Trench — Being Young at the Battle of the Somme, July, 1916
The Trench, a 1991 British film by William Boyd, almost accomplishes what a serious anti-war film should do — make …
Three Soldiers — A WW I Novel of John Dos Passos
It’s hard, reading today, to get a grip on the impact which John Dos Passos’ Three Soldiers had on the …
WW I As Recorded by those Who Were There
The British National Archives has announced that in this 100th year anniversary of the beginning of WW I, (August), that …