Meanwhile, on 6 April the United States declared war on Germany. In early 1915, following the sinking of the Lusitania, Germany had stopped its unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic because of concerns of drawing the United States into the conflict. With the growing discontent of the Ge...
The First World War was the first ‘total war’ in history, in the sense that it pitted industrialized imperial powers in a conflict that lasted for 50 months, drawing in the resources of the whole world and killing more soldiers in combat than any previous war to date. Its causes were ...
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Canada joined the First World War on August 4, 1914, alongside Great Britain and the rest of the British Empire. What began as a mobile war quickly turned into a static one, with the entrenchment of the Allied and Entente armies. By 1915, the momentum that had previously animated early fi...
The real thing about the human side of the war is the sheer fun of it. In certain aspects the war is nothing but a glorious, gigantic game of hide and seek—camouflage is nothing else. It is not only the art of making things invisible, but also of making them look like something els...
Master drawings - Post-war & contemporary (solo)01.10 - 02.16Barbara Mathes Gallery (New York City, NY, United States) (1) Terry Adkins - The Smooth, The Cut, and The Assembled (solo)01.10 - 02.17Lévy Gorvy (New York City, NY, United States) (1) A new look at Henri Prosi (solo...
It requires about the same length of time to read and digest as a standard, non-pictorial account of the Great War。 The authors are careful to present issues and controversies relating to the War without drawing dogmatic conclusions。 Rather, the book encourages readers to think about the ...
Drawing on the Mary Evans archive for the slot on fancy dress, it became apparent that costume balls were something of a craze in the years leading up to the Great War, covered in forensic detail by the illustrated weekly magazines we hold here. There are some wonderful examples. The Shakes...
Tonoas, was also called Dublon (after a Spanish ship's captain), and then Natsushima (Summer Island) 夏島 by the Japanese. The island was the headquarters for the Japanese military (Navy) government during the war, and over 1,200 military buildings were erected on the island. ...
Konrad Adenauer, the future post war Chancellor of West Germany, was removed by the Nazi Party from his post as Mayor of Köln (Cologne), Germany. Penniless, he sought sanctuary in the Benedictine monastery at the Maria Laach Abbey near Andernach, Germany. [Köln, Köln-Aachen | AC]5...