The First World War is of capital importance to understand the connection between women and war in the wide sense of the word - not just war as combat - because it intersects with crucial developments in the history of feminism. Since women (and I'll refer here mainly to British women) ...
There were other women at the front, too: the French and Belgian women who saw their homes invaded by friendly and unfriendly troops - women of whom we know relatively very little - the professional entertainers and the also professional (or occasional) prostitutes. Joshua S. Goldstein comments...
The Belgians had about 60 or 70 infantry battalions, and not one of them was mobilized to the Ardennes. Neutral powers put up a fight for their territory as their first doctrine, they don't just give away 40% of their country without at least a token fight. There should have been at...
And it wasn’t confined to that one battlefield. Starting on Christmas Eve, small pockets of French, German, Belgian and British troops held impromptu cease-fires across the Western Front, with reports of some on the Eastern Front as well. Some accounts suggest a few of these unofficial truc...
a belgian student turned combat nurse, can heal wounded soldiers by playing a rhythm game based around an electrocardiogram. before the credits roll, you'll dart between the gathering shadows of bullet-shaped bombs, tunnel deep beneath the battlefield to unearth 119 collectibles, save imperiled civ...
Western Front- When the German army charged across the Belgian border in August 1914, Britain and France declared war on Germany. Germans troops quickly drove through Belgium and soon entered France. As the British and French armies fought to stop Germany’s advance a battle stand-off soon ensu...
Ludendorff played a significant part in the revision of theSchlieffen Plan. This planenvisageda gigantic outflanking movement involving the infringement of Belgian neutrality with the aim of crushing France with one blow. Moltke and Ludendorff decided to secure more firmly the extended southern flank ...
Big Bertha, a type of 420-mm (16.5-inch) howitzer that was first used by the German army to bombard Belgian and French forts during World War I. Officially designated as the 42-cm kurze Marinekanone 14 L/12 in Räderlafette (“42-cm short naval canon 1
The French, British, Americans and Belgians battle the Germans in the muddy trench warfare of Verdun. Lead charges across No-Man’s-Land then stand your ground against the inevitable counter attack as you attempt to push the enemy out of their final trench line. 阅读更多有关 WW1 Game ...
The French, British, Americans and Belgians battle the Germans in the muddy trench warfare of Verdun. Lead charges across No-Man’s-Land then stand your ground against the inevitable counter attack as you attempt to push the enemy out of their final trench line. 阅读更多有关 WW1 Game ...