Things Have Changed

From our WWI battlefield tour in September.  Three sets of photos of the trenches in which so many soldiers spent months. The first is at Yp...

( Two photos below from Wikipedia )  At 7:28am on July 1, 1916 a titanic explosion occurred near La Boisselle, a village in the Department o...

After tours of the Somme and Ypres, the rest of our recent WW1 trip was self-guided.  When planning the trip it proved very difficult to fin...

  Recently returned from the tour of WW1 battlefields I mentioned in a recent post .  Above is a photo I took of my friend looking at three ...

On this date in 1914, the British light cruiser HMS Birmingham rammed and sunk the U-15, the first German submarine to be lost in World War ...

On this 108th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme in which 60,000 soldiers of the British Empire were killed or wounded,...

An astonishing achievement by Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings.  The film is only being shown on two evenings in the U.S., ...

A century ago today, at 11am, the guns stopped in Europe.  Between nine and ten million soldiers lay dead.  Empires crumbled; Russian, Ottom...

After Germany's defeat in World War One, that country's nationalists adamantly maintained that the German Army had not been defeated...

4:40am on March 21, 1918.  Fog shrouds the ground in northern France.  Soldiers of the British 5th Army are in their trenches, some asleep, ...

When it comes to the genre of Bombastic Rock, Freddie Mercury and Queen remain the champions.  I was reminded of this when I came upon Highl...

On December 11, 1917, General Edmund Allenby, commander of British forces in the Middle East entered Jerusalem through the Jaffa Gate.  As a...

Last week I attended a talk by Prof Kyle Longley of Arizona State University on the subject of the Versailles Treaty of 1919 and its long te...

( Lenin arrives at the Finland Station ) ‘It was with a sense of awe that they turned upon Russia the most grisly of all weapons. They t...

Veterans Day was originally Remembrance or Armistice Day, established by the victor nations in commemoration of the end of World War I on No...

Attack launched north of River Somme this morning at 7:30a.m., in conjunction with French. British troops have broken into German forward ...

For Memorial Day Last year, Civil War historian Brooks Simpson was in Europe visiting battle sites and American cemeteries containing WWI ...