World War I - Air Warfare, Trench Warfare, Armistice: Aircraft, including dirigibles (Zeppelins), were used for reconnaissance and bombing attacks. The Royal Air Force (RAF) became the world's first separate air service. In 1917 peace overtures were bein
technology and the mobilization of industrial capacity and the home front. The war also became three-dimensional: in the air (airplanes), below the seas (submarines), and land (mining), and a frontline from the North Sea until the Swiss border that reached ever farther behind thetrenches. As...
The novel recounts the return of the shell shocked Captain Chris Baldry from the trenches of The First World War from the perspective of his female cousin Jenny. The novel grapples with the soldier's return from World War I with trauma and its effects on the family, and optimi...
World War I was the first war in which American women were recruited to serve in the military. Women were already present in France as members of the American Red Cross and as canteen workers. Girl Patriots At Great Lakes Homes Wanted For American Women in France ...
Its subtitle, Story of a Squad, reveals the author’s double purpose: to relate the collective experience of the poilus’s (French soldiers’) life in the trenches and to denounce war. The horror of bloodshed and destruction led Barbusse to an indictment of society as a whole. He became ...
Also known as the Great War, World War I was a horrific world conflict that lasted for roughly four years (1914-1918). You know a bit about WWI from ...
He made sergeant during the Great War, which means that by this point he’d already survived three years of this hell and no disciplinary lapse prior to his fatal one suggests that he was anything other than exemplary soldier. But on this occasion, Wall turned up on the evening of August...
We’re still in the midst of the centennial commemoration of World War I, an enormously complicated war still argued over to this day. While fully understanding the war’s big picture may be a nearly impossible exercise, getting a view from the trenches in The Grizzled shows how the trauma...
After the war he worked as a racing-car driver and as a sportswriter while working on All Quiet on the Western Front. The novel’s events are those in the daily routine of soldiers who seem to have no past or future apart from their life in the trenches. Its title, the language of...
The Battle of the Falkland Islands has been called the most important naval battle of the war, because it gave a great morale boost to the Allied war effort at a dire time, when theAllieswere flailing on theWestern Frontand were about to get bogged down inGallipoli. In Germany, Spee was...