The clash of dreadnoughts was as gigantic as it was indecisive. Both sides were losers. Nonetheless, the battle was a turning point.
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The Fokker Menace
He was Oswald Boelcke, the German World War I ace, whose tactical rules are still observed. With good reason he is still remembered as “the father of air combat”
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The Death of Landscape
The British soldier artists of the Great War confronted a world in which nature itself seemed a victim
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Europe 1914
The Trumpet, by Edward Thomas Rise up, rise up, And, as the trumpet […]
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Dismantling Bismark
The Iron Chancellor won strategic security for Germany; his myopic successors threw it away
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Outfoxing the Allies in German East Africa
Led by imaginative commander Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck, vastly outnumbered German and native forces were able to tie down more than 300,000 Allied troops in East Africa during World War I.
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The Great War’s Human Plight
War does not much discriminate as to its choice of victims. Military strategists have often […]
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Genesis of the AEF
Retired French Marshal ‘Papa’ Joffre helped shape the American Expeditionary Force in World War I.
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The War Lover
Manfred von Richthofen-the legendary ace of aces-had an explanation for his success: the “hunting fever.” But in the end, the consummate hunter would allow himself to become the hunted.