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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1941-10-01/war-crisis-berlin-july-august-1914https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review ...
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 ...
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 ...
“This country enters upon the third week of the Great War with an even higher heart, with yet better hopes, than at the opening of the second.” An optimistic note opens our leader on page 6, but the ...
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