Editor’s note (4/2/2017): This week marks the 100-year anniversary of the U.S. entry into the First World War. Scientific American, founded in 1845, spent the war years covering the monumental ...
Everyone is familiar with photos of the flag-waving crowds and jubilant soldiers that are supposed to have captured the people’s universal enthusiasm for war in the first days of August 1914. This was ...
AUGUST 1914: FRANCE, THE GREAT WAR, AND A MONTH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER By Bruno Cabanes Translated by Stephanie O’Hara Yale University Press, $27.50, 230 pages More than half a century ago, ...
Exactly 100 years ago this Friday, 27,000 French soldiers died in less than 24 hours. It remains France’s highest ever death toll in a single day, despite being followed by four years of brutal and ...
Naval War College Review, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Summer 2007), pp. 101-122 (22 pages) For guidance to the enormous literature on Jutland, see Eugene L. Rasor, The Battle of Jutland: A Bibliography (New York: ...
A new book throws startling new light on how Britain went to war in 1914, and how it published a deceptive document to try and explain the decision: what the author calls “a dodgy dossier”. The day ...
Whilst the British Army was still preparing for its entry into the war, it was naval matters that headlined Britain’s part in these early days of conflict. It was now certain that the Royal Navy had ...
As the first week of Britain’s war drew to a close readers might have been forgiven for thinking that when our soldiers entered the fray they would be part of a successful Allied attack on Germany.
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