WW I: Last Day of French Exuberance
August 15, 1914, London Daily Telegraph Ω British troop transports make 137 separate crossings of the Channel from August 14 …
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WW I: German Siege Guns Terrify Liège
“By late afternoon of August 12, one of the German army’s [enormous 420 mm siege guns, 24 feet long, weighing …
20 Million, Off to War
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 …