It is about a soldier called Thomas "Tommo" Peaceful, who is looking back on his life from the trenches of World War I in Belgium. Structurally, each chapter of the book brings the reader closer to the present until the story turns to present tense. The story especially underli...
MUSEUMS, BATTLEFIELDS, AND MONUMENTS BASES, AIRFIELDS, FACILITIES, AND INDUSTRIAL SITES PLACES TO BUY MILITARIA WHILE TRAVELLING Places to visit - whether historical sites, museums, or somewhere to go shop for militaria. 335 posts Remains of World War II on Kiska ...
Command of the German colony would make a Boer rebellion under Manie Maritz a possibility that would deny Great Britain many South African reinforcements in vital fronts such as 1914 Belgium and France, and East Africa.In the end, however, numbers prevailed and in June 1915 the colony was ...
This study concerns some of the military cemeteries that were built in Belgium and France by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission following the First World War of 1914–18. The cemeteries articulate one of the main social memories of the war to remember the dead individually. The performance of...
In August 1914 Germany invaded Belgium and then moved into France. German forces were unable to achieve a decisive victory, however, ever, and the war soon became a conflict of fixed battle lines. French, British, and German soldiers lived and fought in trenches, periodically making assaults ...
The backstory of weapons employed in World War 2 on land, sea and air was the intense focus of the scientific /tech communities to create the means for the greatest devastation. Earlier wars may have planted the seeds for lethality, but this new war that engulfed the planet was a quantum...
Your Guide for World War II Tours to Europe. Specializing in the best small group World War 2 Tours to Battlefields, Bunkers, Monuments, and Museums in Europe and Russia.
Today, memorials, monuments and museums dedicated to WWI can be found in all of the combatant countries. From a rose garden in Ireland to vast war cemeteries built on or near the major battlefields, these sites ensure that the memory of the war and the sacrifices of those who lost their ...
(1,600 km) from England to help capture airfields near Oran was scattered by a storm, but those troops that landed on target aided in seizing the Tafaraoui airfield. This operation would mark the first airborne assault by U.S. Army parachute infantry during the war. On the second day ...
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