On seeing the work for the first time, Sir Winston Churchill, himself a veteran of the trenches, wrote: ‘With all its brilliant genius and painful significance… how the field of national psychology must have been harrowed by events which had taken place during the war.’ Share this: Twitt...
Military history Eyes All Over the Sky| The Significance of Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Christopher Phillips StreckfussJamesHistorians have portrayed aviation in the First World War as a romantic alternative to the mass slaughter playing out on the ground and...
who were of a very low class. All professed themselves as confident as to their being able to end the war in their favour. They had no opinion of the Russians, who they considered already beaten. All gave the appearance, however, of being fed up with the war. Armistice concluded at 4.0...
As the war drew to a close, London turned its attention to post-war considerations. The strategic importance of seizing Mosul and its abundant oil resources became evident. Clearing the area of lingering Turkish influence was imperative before the impending armistice. On 23 October 1918, General ...
When Germany surprisingly sought an Armistice to find grounds for Peace in 1918, it was on the basis of President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points. The myth history here is deplorable. Historians and journalist continue to this day to claim that the First World War ended on 11 November, 1918...
On the same day, the second anniversary of the armistice of 11 November 1918, a French Unknown Soldier was buried under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and unknown soldiers were later reburied in many of the victor nations’ capitals. 5 When the defeated Germans attempted to create a ...
When he passed his examinations in July 1870, the war had already broken out. Once back home, he enlisted in the army but did not take part in the fighting. In 1871, after the armistice, when he returned to Saint-Clément, he was forced to live alongside the German soldiers who were ...
world was angry and unkind. Deep inside themselves they feared their boat would break and they’d all be lost. And they felt a mighty fear for the man and the woman who made their world and kept it afloat. The children wept but their cries could not be heard over the scream of the ...