In 1919 Ferdinand Foch, a leading French general, was angered by the final terms of the Treaty of Versailles and had remarked,twitter.com
Today in 1914, the first British Army officer was killed in WW1. George Masterman Thompson, an Indian born Englishman, intwitter.com
~ The Fall of Jerusalem in 1917 with Juliette Desplathistoryhit.com - Simplestream Ltd On December 9th 1917, General Allenby took Jerusalem. Dan discusses the anniversary with Juliette Desplat from the the National Archives at Kew.
A Century Later: The Treaty Of Versailles And Its Rejection Of Racial EqualityNPR - Josh AxelrodA century ago, a new world order began. The Treaty of Versailles concluded the war to end all wars. Constructed through diplomacy, a fragile peace replaced global bloodshed. The treaty's proclamations
Today in 1914 a British soldier fired a shot in anger for the first time in the First World War. Alhaji Grunshi, of the Coasttwitter.com
#OTD in 1914 Britain declared war on Germany & Europe plunged into a Great War. Nothing would ever be the same again as spreadtwitter.com
Why Did Britain Enter World War One?historyhit.com This article is an edited transcript of The Causes of the First World War with Margaret MacMillan on Dan Snow’s History Hit, first broadcast 19 …
Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of ‘Barbaric’lithub.com - By Walter Benjamin Our children’s storybooks contained the fable of the old man who, on his deathbed, convinced his sons that a treasure was buried in the vineyard. …
102 years after he died on the first day of the battle of Passchendaele Francis Ledwidge' words live on to ring out acrossindependent.ie - Dermot Bolger Celebrated Irish poet Francis Ledwidge died 102 years ago today on the first day of the battle of Passchendaele. The writer and poet Dermot Bolger …
The Importance of Artillery in World War Onehistoryhit.com This article is an edited transcript of The Battle of Vimy Ridge with Paul Reed on Dan Snow’s History Hit, first broadcast 19 April 2017. You can …
Forgotten Faces of the Great War: The Chinese Labour Corpshistoryhit.com - Simplestream Ltd China started out as a neutral country during the First World War. But by early 1917, one thousand Chinese men were on their way to the Western …
History Who Started World War One?historyhit.com The origins of World War One are a long standing point of contention among historians. The immediate trigger is obvious and well known: the murder of …
#OTD in 1927, the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres was unveiled by Lord Plumer. To the assembled crowd he said “He is not missing,twitter.com
What if the Allies had been more generous in 1919?The Economist Versailles revisitedWhat if the Allies had been more generous in 1919? In 1919, the world spent six months talking about peace. Did the resulting …
What Were Britain’s Objectives and Expectations at the Somme in 1916?historyhit.com This article is an edited transcript of Battle of the Somme with Paul Reed on Dan Snow’s History Hit, first broadcast 29 June 2016. You can listen to …
15 Bloodiest Battles of World War One by Casualty Figureshistoryhit.com The First World War is infamous for its colossal numbers of deaths, interminably long battles and unashamedly vicious methods of waging war. This …
Why Kaiser Wilhelm Was Never Tried for Starting World War Ihistory.com - By Erin Blakemore The accusations were explosive: a head of state had not only begun an illegal war, but egged his troops on to a series of horrific atrocities that …
Nobody sleeps here except the dead,tykeserre.co.uk - tykeserre1985 I started coming home extremely early on Friday morning from the great bastion on the Meuse, but I have come back to Britain in a very different and …
Albert Einstein Einstein and the Devastating Effects of WWI on Sciencelithub.com - By Matthew Stanley On August 10th, 1915, a 27-year-old signals officer was shot through the head by a Turkish sniper. He was in the Dardanelles as part of Winston …
Victorian women poets of WW1: capturing the reverberations of losstheconversation.com - Kevin Brophy Just as fiction’s George Smiley made sense of the world - and even made his baffling way about a world at war through knowing the works of minor …
Happy #StGeorgesDay! The St George's Memorial Church in Ypres is a quiet corner of Flanders full of memorials to men whotwitter.com
With so many horses enlisted for service in World War One, Lizzie the elephant was used to cart munitions in Sheffield #FactoftheDaytwitter.com
Happy #mothersday! This #WW1 image shows a proud mother with her son just back from the front line. https://t.co/VWM78HTuP6twitter.com
History Why Insecurity Among Europe’s Aristocracies Played a Part in the Outbreak of War in 1914historyhit.com This article is an edited transcript of The Causes of the First World War with Margaret MacMillan on Dan Snow’s History Hit, first broadcast 19 …
Why Did the British Want to Divide the Ottoman Empire in Two after World War One?historyhit.com This article is an edited transcript of The Sykes-Picot Agreement with James Barr on Dan Snow’s HistoryHit, first broadcast 16 May 2016. You can …
No More Parades: a century ago the army that had fought & lived through the Great War was going home, for some after manytwitter.com
War When political leaders choose catastrophe – how Europe walked willingly into World War IThe Conversation UK - William Mulligan Some political catastrophes come without warning. Others are long foretold, but governments still walk open-eyed into disaster. As the possibility of …
Courcelette British Cemetery at sunset - taken on this day during the #WW1Centenary. #Somme #WW1 https://t.co/Nfhe1ybZOltwitter.com
