Year: 2021

The Great War – Hell Cannot Be So Terrible (11 of 26)

Hell Cannot Be So Terrible The Battle of Verdun through June 1916, with a brief look at the civilian life[…]

What Are Our Allies Doing? The war in the latter half of 1915, marked by successes of Central Powers. German[…]

Please God Send Us Victory The Ottoman Empire joins the war on the side of the Central Powers. Armenian Genocide[…]

Why Don’t You Come and Help? The effects of protracted war on civilian life of the major powers. The sinking[…]

We Await the Heavenly Manna War in Europe in 1915; German success at the Masurian Lakes; Russian Siege of Przemysl;[…]

So Sleep Easy in Your Beds For the first 6 months of the war, the Royal Navy did what it[…]

This Business May Last a Long Time The First Battle of the Marne, the Race to the Sea, the Siege[…]

We Doff to General Joffre The Schlieffen Plan is continuing according to plan. The Germans suffer losses in the East[…]

We Must Hack Our Way Through The 3rd installment of the series covers the first 3 weeks of the war.[…]

For Such a Stupid Reason, Too Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, international diplomacy breaks down[…]