In the newspapers you read: "Peacefully they rest on the spot where they have bled and suffered, while the guns roar over their graves, taking vengeance for their heroic death". And it doesn't occur to anybody that the enemy is also firing; that the shells plunge into the hero's grave; that his bones are mingled with the filth which they scatter to the four winds - and that, after a few weeks, the morass closes over the last resting-place of the soldier.
Kanonier Gerhard Gürtler, 111 Bavarian Corps, Artillerie -- German Army, World War I
Kanonier Gerhard Gürtler, 111 Bavarian Corps, Artillerie -- German Army, World War I
CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I
What really marked out the decade before 1914 was a failure of statesmanship and hope. By 1912, most European governments had come to believe that a general European war was inevitable and that the problems which plagued them at home and abroad could no longer be settled by negotiation and diplomacy… In these circumstances, war seemed to offer an attractive way out ...The balance sheet in 1918 proved how wrong they had been.
R. Henig, The Origins of the First World War (1989) |
A summary of the historiographical debate surrounding the causes/blame for World War I
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STRATEGIES, TACTICS, PRACTICES OF WORLD WAR I
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A set of lessons from the University of Texas, the poems and photographs will be analyzed in order to understand how the practices of the war impacted the soldiers.
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The classic game of strategy, can be played using either the classic game or diplomacy 1900.
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OUTCOMES OF WORLD WAR I
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From NPR a nice article looking at how the technological innovations of World War I were, at least in part, responsible for ushering in the modern world.
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