WW I: Siegfried Sassoon As His Eyes Open
Siegfried Sassoon, despite his Germanic name, his wealthy family and Jewish heritage, became one of England’s most famous soldier-poets of …
Monthly Archives: September 2014
WW I: Warning the World about the War
With very few exceptions, all the books we associate with World War I — fiction, memoir, poetry– were written after …
WW I: Austrians and Russians
In most determinations of the responsibility for the outbreak of WW I, Austria-Hungary’s invasion of Serbia comes a close second …
WWI: The Government Abandons Paris
On September 3, 1914, a sentence surely found in the duplicative archives of human warfare, was released to the people …
WW I: Coming Home from the Eastern Front
Almost everything we westerners know about WW I has to do with the Western Front, the British, the French, the …
WWI: August Dead
“According to Armées Françaises, French casualties in the month of August alone amounted to 206,515, including killed , wounded , …