Monthly Archives: August 2014
WW I: Austria Invades Russian Poland;
France and Britain Declare War on Austria-Hungary
Making Memorial
Geoff Dyer’s 1994 The Missing of the Somme, published in the United States in 2011, takes us on a …
WW I: August 9: Premature Cheering
The German advance army crossed into Belgium on the 4th of August and was greatly surprised by Belgian resistance along …
WW I: Massive Peace Demonstration in Glasgow
Sunday, August 9, 1914, 5000 gather in Glasgow to shout down the just declared war. George Hardie [Scottish Labor politician …
On War Resistance
“If in any country whatever a recruiting campaign were to be launched today for some utterly preposterous war, a war …
WW I: Belgians and Germans — The Shooting Begins
The first day of actual fighting brought excited reports of German losses to the pages of the conservative Daily …
Siegfried Sassoon Journals On Line
Siegfried Sassoon, along with his friend and fellow poet, Wilfred Owen, may be the best known names from England’s share …
WW I: Did not Begin by ‘Slithering Over the Brink”
So today it all began, the war that took 8.5 million lives, and wounded 21.2 million more, that began the …
WW I – the Numbers
WW I: Germany into Belgium, France. Britain Declares War
1914 4 August – 8:02 AM Germans invade Belgium 1914 4 August – 9 AM King Alfred meets Belgian parliament …
WW I: Belgium Refuses German Demand; Germany Declares War on France
August 3, 1914: Germany’s ultimatum is rejected by the Belgian Government, stating that: “The Belgian Government, if they were to accept the proposals …