After this classic World War I trench slaughter on the heights north of Arras, France could no longer count on the sacrificial élan of her army.
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John Singer Sargent Visits the Front
The newly invented weapons that brought such death and horror to the battle fields of World War I also inspired some remarkable works of art, including John Singer Sargents haunting Gassed
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Before The Sound of Music
The Trapp family patriarch made his name as the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s leading U-boat ace […]
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MHQ Book Review: War and Peace in the Ancient World
War and Peace in the Ancient World Kurt A. Raaflaub (editor), (Blackwell Publishing, 2007), […]
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Can the Counters Be Counted On?
Despite biased historians and few primary sources, the numbers in the ancients’ battle tales […]
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What Took the North So Long?
THE CIVIL WAR DEVASTATED THE SOUTH AND SAVAGED THE ARMIES OF BOTH SIDES, exacting […]
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Interview: Paul Cartledge / East vs. West at Thermopylae
Cambridge classicist Paul Cartledge has spent more than three decades studying the civilization of […]
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Interview: Anthony Pagden / East Is East, West Is West
Anthony Pagden’s book at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West Worlds stands […]
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The Merchants of Menace
Disguised as neutral-nation freighters but packing a hidden punch, Germany’s merchant raiders bedeviled the […]