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80Hoovervilles
By Chef Jeff I am a veteran, and a historian. I often have read lots of pages on various subjects and I often formulate my own opinions about things. In this article I do not pretend that I am not biased...
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74In Flanders Fields
The last entry of the First World War poetry series "Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel" is a Special about the most famous poem from the First World War: In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae.
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72Ghost 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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74World'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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68On 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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65The boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne - Book Review
In the book " The boy in the striped pajamas" nine-year old Bruno, a boy in Berlin Germany during the war, enbarks on a journey to see how life really is on the other side of the fence...where he finds the...
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72How England and France Forced Greece to Enter WW1
King Constantine was married to Germany’s Wilhelm Kaiser's sister and decided to remain neutral in WW1. In effect, the advantage was given to Germany and Turkey. The King’s Prime Minister Venizelos...
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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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82Prostitutes, The Worlds Oldest Profession
Prostitution is always referred to as the World's Oldest Profession. If it is, I wonder why it is taking so long to come round to accepting it. What is a prostitute? A mistress to many men. Someone who...
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61Only Major WWI memorial in the U.S.
Here is the "Liberty Memorial" I believe it is the only memorial to those who fought in world war 1, in the U.S. anyway. After much neglet, the final rehab of this amazing museum and memorial was finished...
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