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86Oxford University World War I Poetry Digital Archive - A Site Worth Visiting
November 14, 2009 Horrible as it was, World War I inspired a generation of writers and poets. While they probably would have ultimately been drafted into the war as a result of Great Britain eventually...
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62Khyber Pass - Pakistan
KHYBER PASS PAKISTAN The Khyber Pass is a strategically import mountain pass. It is between the Afghan and Pakistan border. It is know as a major trading and invasion route. Darius I of Persia went through...
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71World's Oldest Man Dies aged 113-Last World War One Veteran Henry Allingham
Henry Allingham the world’s oldest man and last British veteran of the First World War died yesterday, 18th July 2009. His death brought many thoughts to my mind. On a personal level. My Dad who was...
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50Hitler was a girl
We all know of World War II. The history, the savage brutality, the earth shattering conclusions. And of course everyone knows the players…Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Hirohito and the ever...
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78Ghost Cavalry of the Great War
Captain Cecil Wightwick left us an account of the strange things that happened between April and August 1918 near Bethune (France), in the middle of an area of front line trenches between the city of Ypres...
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62The Human Cost of War in Iraq - Eyes Wide Open Exhibit
It is difficult to comprehand that the war in Iraq was not ended long ago. When the fiasco began, the American Friends Service Committee created a traveling exhibition to help translate sterile casualty...
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77Dulce Et Decorum Est...
"Dulce Et Decorum Est" is a World War I Poem by Wilfred Owen. His portrayal of the reality of war is graphic in a time when it was considered "glorious" to die for your country. It's a powerful piece and my favorite World War I poem.
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64World War I Movies
It never fails to surprise many of my students that movies were made in World War I. Of course, most of these motion pictures were in black and white, and all were silent, although it was common for a score...
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67On the Eleventh Hour, of the Eleventh Day, in the Eleventh Month...
I'm making a special hub because today is Veteran's Day, once known as Armistice Day. When I was in the classroom I would start off by telling the students about the end of WWI. "At the eleventh hour of...
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63The Motives of World War I
In fact, the quiet was deceptive. As we will see, Europe had been poised for a general war for years. Since the brief Franco-Prussian War, all the major nations had developed substantial arms industries, and...
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