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Gone Fishing: Troops on both sides used improvised tackle to catch fish and supplement their army rations
Soldiers during the war would fish to supplement sometimes meager and unappetizing rations, and it was a common activity among troops in both armies.
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Albert and the Yser
Everyone regards the Marne as the turning point of 1914 (and of the First […]
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Beyond Burnside Bridge
Desperate fighting south of Sharpsburg ultimately decided the Battle of Antietam Accounts of the […]
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How Canada Became the Last Stop on the Underground Railroad
Two escaped slaves from Kentucky touched off riots in Detroit and set an international legal precedent.
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Pershing’s Eyes in the Sky
As a freshly minted lieutenant in the Twelfth Aero Squadron, Robert Paradise took to the sky as one of the Army Air Service’s early aerial observation pilots.
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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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Genesis of the AEF
Retired French Marshal ‘Papa’ Joffre helped shape the American Expeditionary Force in World War I.
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Book Review: Eisenhower, and One Square Mile of Hell
Eisenhower by John Wukovits Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle […]