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83Firing Squad at Dawn - Executions in World War One (WWI)
During the First World War, several hundred men were shot at dawn, by firing squads, made up of their own comrades, supposedly for cowardice and desertion. Many were suffering from trauma and other physical, psychological and / or emotional health problems. A number of them were young boys, who had lied about their age, when they enlisted, and then simply could not cope with the horrors that World War One forced upon them. They died a horrific and terrifying death, when they should have been sen
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80World War 1 History: Overview of the War On The Eastern Front
In the English-speaking world, the Eastern Front during World War One is generally ignored in favor of the Western Front fought in France and Belgium. This is unfortunate, since the Eastern Front in Eastern and Central Europe was every bit as horrendous as the war in the west and the Western Front cannot be fully understood without appreciating the effect the war in the east had on it.
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7724 MILES FROM MIDDLE EARTH
In a series that is part of a course assigment, I continue to explore literature for teens and young adults in a rambling sort of way. This time an old favourite: The Hobbit.
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82World War Two: The Home Front
By 1940, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and all the other occupied countries of Europe, had fallen under the tyrrany of the Nazi jackboot. If Britain didn't defend itself, it would surely suffer the same fate. Everyone had to do their bit as the...
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82Ernest Hemingway - An American Literary Giant
I'd started reading the work of Ernest Hemingway before I'd got out of high school, and I fondly recall hearing a great teacher talk about the great writers of this world, and she'd singled out Hemingway as an example of such. She'd went on to say...
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85Visiting the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, with its neo-Baroque architecture: remembering Theodore Verhaegen
The main building of the Free University of Brussels (French: Université Libre de Bruxelles; or ULB)(1) is situated on Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, Solbosch, Brussels and was the work of Alexis Dumont. This work was undertaken from 1924 to 1928....
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75The pity of war in Wilfred Owen's Poems - How typical is this theme?
Wilfred Owen wrote truthfully about the war, so it is not surprising that a common theme amongst his poems is the pity of war. One poem that expresses feelings of pity is “Anthem for Doomed Youth”. The poem addresses the issue of what ceremonies...
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81Simpson and His Donkey
The World War One battle of Gallipoli was a defining moment in Australia's fledgling history. Australian war correspondent C.E.W. Bean described the landing of Australian soldiers at Anzac Cove on April 25th 1915 as the 'Birth of a Nation'.Many...
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78France after the First World War
World War I broke out in 1914. France suffered for several years under a succession of weak premiers. However, in 1917, Georges Clemenceau became premier and led France to victory over Germany. Victory came...
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75Ghost 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 (Flanders, Belgium) and the French towns of...
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