| 单词 | Great War |
| 例句 | After Grandpa died, most of the money was lost, and after the Great War and inflation there was nothing left at all. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Campbell felt the deficiency all the more sharply between 1914 and 1918, when the Great War cut off all travel to Britain and the continent. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The destruction reminded Carmen of the pictures she’d seen in the newspapers of the battlefields of the Great War—the cities and forests of France and Belgium turned to charred ruins. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z "To protect the Fatherland. The enemy will stop at nothing to destroy our will to victory. Their propaganda caused us to lose the Great War." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The country’s success in the Great War inspired a new appreciation across the land for the value of scientific research as a national endeavor and as a foundation for industrial growth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Based on their experiences in the Great War, people assumed women and children would be safe, but able-bodied men would be conscripted into the German army as forced laborers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The Great War had whipped a starving, weary population into a murderous frenzy of discontent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But Richard had fought and been wounded in the Great War, and he did not think any harm would come to him or his family in the long run. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And so the far-off kingdoms of Europe and Russia tumbled into the second Great War. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Benno Seligmann's father is standing outside his shop, wearing, of all things, his lieutenant's uniform from the Great War, medals and all. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z During the Great War, the German soldiers who occupied Poland were usually considerate of Poles, regardless of their faith. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They recalled the horror of the Great War, as World War I was then called, and they didn’t want their children prepared for another such war. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As an old woman she would read about the Great War in Europe and recall this night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They remind me of photos of soldiers returning from the Great War, hollow-eyed and bald. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Among them were two men, John Alcock and Arthur Brown, former British Airmen who had both been shot down and captured during the Great War. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z If he were a soldier, he would fight bravely for Germany, just as Hitler fought in the Great War. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z They went to a vaudeville stage show, visited the tomb of an unknown soldier from the Great War, and took in a light opera. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The injury happened before I was born, during the Great War. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Like so many workers in so many different crafts and industries throughout the country, the nation’s steel workers had expected that their wages and working conditions would improve once the Great War was over. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Charlie had been gassed in the Great War, his vocal cords all but destroyed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Two months earlier, the long, tragic Great War ended and hundreds of thousands of American servicemen were at last coming home from the battlefields of Europe. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He went to the Great War, he was gassed, he’s big, he has a job, he makes the world laugh. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z For tens of thousands of workers, particularly those who had risked their lives by fighting to save democracy in the Great War, it was a bitter blow. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The Great War had just started, and America hadn’t yet joined the fight against Germany. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Did he avoid serving in the Great War, or did he die somewhere near here under another name? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Europe was on edge again just twenty years after the Great War tore it apart. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He forms two lines, with blue-clad French soldiers dug in on one side and gray-clad Germans attacking mercilessly on the other, just as they had fought on the Western front during the Great War. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Several days a week, Madame brings food to Crazy Hubert Bazin, a veteran of the Great War who sleeps in an alcove behind the library in sun or snow. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Over the summer, he’d come back from fighting in the Great War. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z It was the twentieth year after the Great War. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Sparling became restive and bitter and began to talk in a desolate monotone about his eleven months in France during the Great War. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Germany was so poor after the Great War that lots of families sent their children to Holland, to grow strong on Dutch cheeses and milk. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “As you recall,” Mrs. Weidenbach said, “my bread-and-butter pickles have taken the blue ribbon every year since the fair recommenced after the Great War.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He had been a soldier in the army in the Great War and that, of course, was how he had received his title. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the Germans had left at the end of the Great War, so they would leave again. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Memories of the Great War, back before I was born. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Great War had always been between the white and the black. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He then walked to his room and dressed in his uniform from the Great War. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Herr Seligmann fought in the Great War, where he was wounded and earned the Iron Cross for his bravery. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I still have one of his many notebooks from the Great War of 1914-18. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, Georges Melies died sometime after the Great War, and many, if not all, of his films are lost. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Sassoon, whose writing was inspired by his first-hand experience as a serving officer in the Great War, is now recognised as a leading war poet of his generation. Sassoon war diaries published online 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Davis, an anthropologist, explorer and author of "The Serpent and the Rainbow," discusses his new book, "Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest." 18 top entertainment picks, Oct. 23-29 2011-10-19T22:58:08Z "Sucking up to the Germans is no way to remember our Great War heroes, Mr Cameron", was how the headline of his article in the Daily Mail put it. Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z It was not written to be easily understood, but the youth loved it for reflecting their disillusionment after the Great War. How T.S. Eliot Went From Neurotic Banker to Neurotic Worldwide Literary Hero 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Perhaps the sad tale of his service in the Great War — he was discharged after mercy-killing his own wounded men in the trenches — says everything you need to know about Perry. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: ‘King Kong’ Ding-Dong 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Sunday's race is the only event marking the start of the Great War to be jointly organized by Bosnia's two ethnic-based regions. Cyclists race through Sarajevo to mark WWI centenary, promote peace 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z An exhibition opening near Paris on Saturday commemorates the British "Tommies" who marched to battle against Germany with no inkling that the Great War would drag on for four relentless years. Eager but doomed: the British Tommies who hoped to be home by Christmas 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z “The Great War” is the culmination of a long-held aspiration to create a kind of modern equivalent of the Bayeux Tapestry, a medieval work that portrays the Norman Conquest. Joe Sacco's 'The Great War' becomes a Paris subway mural 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Say what you will about Britain just before and after the Great War, it was a golden age for “light” fiction. Review | My plan for fending off the holiday blues? Escaping into light fiction from another era. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The horrors of WWI battlegrounds are vividly shown, and the film certainly tries to be respectful to the lives that were lost and could have been saved during the Great War. "The King's Man": Come for the goofy revisionist history, but stay for scenery-chewing Rasputin 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z They were the first soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces to die in combat in the Great War. In France, Artifacts of America’s Role in World War I 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The painting, dubbed simply “Studies,” sets up the basic theme of an exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, “Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation, and Change.” It’s easy to overthink Picasso 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Speaking of Siegfried's part in the Great War, we did get a flashback to see him in action. "All Creatures Great and Small" writer on bringing "bittersweet" comforts of WWII to the Dales 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z When the Great War was over, he threw himself just as fiercely into research. The Groundbreaking Scientist Who Risked All in Pursuit of His Beliefs 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Barely recovered from the first Great War, the Western World and the Langdons stumble into the Second. Jane Smiley brings 'Some Luck' to readers 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Hundreds of sacks of sugar tower over a worker, recalling levees or even sandbags fronting the trenches of the Great War. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z It has also occasioned a suite of exhibitions in this region, under the umbrella title “1917: Total War in Flanders,” that explore how the Great War intensified 100 years ago into an unprecedented catastrophe. How to Remember a War Without Glory? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z For now, the Great War is the only 20th-century conflict not commemorated in the nation’s capital. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In the end, Hochschild must decide whether the vast and unprecedented carnage of the Great War was worth it. Narrative history of WWI focuses on war resisters 2011-05-02T11:11:09Z She says she thinks that today’s interest lies as much in the very confusion surrounding the causes of the Great War as in the parallels to our own anxious, transitional time. Margaret MacMillan Discusses Causes of World War I 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z In fact the Great War didn't truly end until the fall of the Berlin Wall over seventy years later. In France, Vestiges of the Great War’s Bloody End 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Her winning poem, "Clothes that escaped the Great War", tells of the plodding carthorse who would take boys away to war, and then return, later, with just their clothes. First world war poem wins National Poetry Competition 2013 2013-03-27T20:29:01Z But in its peculiar juxtapositions of raucous comedy and righteous anger, soaring lyricism and simple prose, it certainly reflects a vision of the Great War as a calamity that shattered civilization for good. | 'The Silver Tassie': War Changes a Man, and a Play 2011-07-27T22:15:20Z Still, it is doubtful "The Great War" will silence those who question the CIA, Presidents Bush and Obama, and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Some 65 million soldiers mobilized for the Great War, around 9 million were killed, 20 million injured and nearly 7 million taken prisoner. World War One bombs a part of life in Belgium even 100 years on 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Vincent B. Sherry, writing in “The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War,” called Mr. Fussell’s book “the fork in the road for Great War criticism.” Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88 2012-05-23T22:21:26Z The Great War – or World War I, as it would come to be called — was triggered one hundred years ago this month when an assassin shot and killed Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. What America can learn from “Lawrence of Arabia” about Iraq 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z He was buried in France on November 8, 1918, just three days before the Great War was over. The recipe for Coney Island hot dogs from "Homefront Cooking" will elevate any Fourth of July picnic 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Her father lost a leg in the Great War, and her mother can scarcely leave the house, so it is up to their only child to marry into money and Save Our Home. Review | Southern historical fiction gets the soap opera treatment in ‘The Dying of the Light’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The Great War, in other words, is underway, and Adam, now a student at Oxford, joins up, too. J.R.R. Tolkien’s war experiences inspire his grandson’s novel, ‘No Man’s Land’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Downton Abbey9pm, ITV1 Literature tends to paint the Edwardian era as an idyllic time of endless summers – at least as seen from the vantage point of those who had seen the Great War. Renaissance Revolution: Bosch 2010-10-23T05:45:00Z "Nearly a hundred years later, it's one of the few things about the Great War that still does." 'The Long Way Home': immigrant soldiers' harrowing service in the Great War 2010-03-24T23:32:00Z "The Great War," a modest, handcrafted multimedia gem, provoked such disproportionately big and chilling thoughts. 'The Great War's' portrayal of WWI battlefield horror proves ingenious 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z “Chicago” focuses on two daily scribes “debauched by journalism”: Parlow and his best friend, Mike, a flier during the Great War still haunted by the carnage he witnessed. Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z You hung on when the menfolk went off to fight the Great War. ‘Downton Abbey,’ the Good, the Bad and the Forgotten 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Tony explained that this fine example of 1920s architecture reminded him of one of the two great 20th-century advertisements for social democracy: "Red Vienna" after the Great War. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z The Great War happens offstage in “Sunset Song,” but it’s front and center in “The Fear,” by the French director Damien Odoul. At Film Comment Selects, Period Pieces Lead the Way 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s sobering as we celebrate the unimaginable sacrifices of our countrymen and women in this anniversary year of the Great War. My boyfriend doesn’t like my parents. What does this mean for our future? 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z It appears there were precisely zero catchy tunes inspired by suffragists, for example, and the Great War was also slow going. Review | How American music became both a reflection and an instrument of social change 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z The stories and and writing of the Great War has inspired deeply affect us. David Cameron announces £50m fund for first world war commemorations 2012-10-11T19:12:20Z A handful of powerful people made the decisions that made "the Great War." 'Lost History of 1914': the war that might not have been 2012-03-07T22:47:04Z The nation was still in mourning for her dead from the world's first Great War. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z The 10-month Battle of Verdun ranks among the bloodiest encounters in the Great War, its unrelenting hailstorm of ammunition killing hundreds of thousands French and German soldiers from February to December 1916. 100 years on, buried WWI shells pose threat in French fields 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Called The Great War, it will focus on the lives of two young men on the frontline. Authors prepare to mark centenary of first world war with flood of new books 2013-06-09T08:30:02Z Great war movies tend not to be Great War movies. Perspective | Recollections of World War I were fading away, but books, movies and TV brought them back 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z It was a world racing into the future to escape the past, layering on the glamour to cover up the scars of the Great War. Perspective | How one writer shook up the Golden Age detective novel 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z When the Great War came, Lang left Paris and enlisted in the Austrian army, serving with distinction, earning a fistful of medals and citations before his wounds forced him from the field. New on DVD, ‘Fritz Lang: The Early Works’ 2012-11-09T23:32:07Z This year, for example, is the centennial of the end of the Great War. Edinburgh International Festival Embraces Youth at 71 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The most touching pages of “Mad Enchantment” are those devoted to Georges Clemenceau, the French statesman who led his country to victory — ultimately pyrrhic — in the Great War. Monet’s last, desperate effort to create the world’s most beautiful paintings 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The event’s moderator, the Danish writer Janne Teller, suggested that some of the victors of the Great War had published books that painted it in a more heroic light. ArtsBeat: A Great War Reading List at PEN World Voices Festival 2014-05-02T18:57:31Z By this point, the reader recognizes that Waters’s novel is, in part, about the aftershocks of the Great War, especially as they affect the educated, upper-middle class and its young women in particular. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters For it is not his intention to describe how or why the Great War began. 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-05-08T10:30:01Z His life story is bracketed on the one end by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and on the other by the Great War. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Baker’s play premiered in 1917 in London, but the way it tackles the issue of work-life balance seems to speak more to the Great Resignation than to the Great War. ‘Partnership’ Review: A Lost Tale of Ambition That Resonates 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z He has been shaped, in large part, by his experience as an “English public school man” and is haunted by indelible memories of the Great War. Review | In ‘Something More Than Night,’ Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff are a winning crime-fighting duo 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Morrow, 75, has written or co-written several books on World War I, including “The Great War: An Imperial History,” ”The Great War in the Air” and “German Airpower in World War I.” Military historian John H. Morrow wins $100,000 award 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The Great War is simply just richer, from a literary point of view. The best boring books 2011-01-04T13:05:36Z But the Great War is looming, and when it breaks, Ted sells Joey to the British Army. War Horse: Spielberg's Searing, Splendid Christmas Gift 2011-12-22T21:17:44Z Despite its overly broad title, “The Great War” is not a history of World War I per se. Review: ‘The Great War,’ When America Took the World Stage 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Do give “In Parenthesis” a try, especially during this season when we recall the United States’ entry into the Great War. Why isn’t David Jones famous? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z But the doctor’s explanation of his trip accounts for his haunted manner: he left his own home and young wife eighteen years ago to fight in the Great War. My Favorite Halloween Movie 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z I start to be a bore about the Viennese fashion for furs before the Great War. Small things 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z Clemenceau’s bitterness against Germany helped inspire the postwar reparations that made Hitler’s rise possible, but the Great War figures only as an ominous background rumble, as does the Dreyfus Affair. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z What a Lovely War, an adaptation of Joan Littlewood’s bleak synoptic history of the Great War set to the songs soldiers sang as they marched to their mass deaths. Remembering Richard Attenborough, the Man Behind Gandhi 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Late in the new World War I video game Valiant Hearts: The Great War, a French soldier named Émile is running into battle. Valiant Hearts, a Game Set in Historical Battles 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z PORTLAND, Ore. — Paul Fussell, an acclaimed literary scholar who won a National Book Award in 1976 for "The Great War and Modern Memory," died Wednesday morning at age 88. Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88 2012-05-24T01:58:08Z Tietjens, loosely modeled on Ford himself, is a stuffy Yorkshire aristocrat clinging to Edwardian values on the eve of the Great War. Benedict Cumberbatch Acts Clever Again in ‘The Imitation Game’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z At the brink of the cataclysmic Great War, the rush evokes a biblical deluge without ever resorting to recognizable objects. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z In his magisterial study, The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell takes issue with In Parenthesis's extreme levels of allusion, judging it "an honourable miscarriage". The first world war's great novelist: David Jones 2011-02-04T13:58:23Z Premiering on April 10, “The Great War” series tells the stories of African-American and Latino soldiers, suffragists and Native American code talkers, among others. We’ve been here before: Eerie parallels between World War I and present-day America 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z A general who fought in both the Great War and against the Communists in the Russian Civil War, he now writes histories of these conflicts. Theater Review: ‘In Paris’ Stars Mikhail Baryshnikov 2012-08-03T22:57:36Z In an age and place where many children worked dangerous jobs and had lost fathers in the Great War, the danger of poverty and abandonment was vivid, even to a small boy. Child stars: The power and the price of cuteness 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Occupation was replaced after the Great War by domination from Belgrade under the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. On centenary of WWI assassination, the past still haunts Sarajevo 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z And soldiers were forced into battle in the Great War, a fight they could not win. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Cal’s father served honorably in the Great War, but lost the family farm to foreclosure two years ago, just after Cal’s mother died. Historical Fiction That Takes Children to War Zones and Internment Camps 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z He also has a regrettable tendency towards sonorous potted history: "The Great War had concussed the world … Europe was a crucible of bones." TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-06-01T07:30:01Z In a scene set in 1924, the family members discuss the Great War, the carving up of Austria in its aftermath, and the messy politics and competing ideologies of the interwar period. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z This, after all, was the very spot where the very last man was killed in the Great War: Pvt. In France, Vestiges of the Great War’s Bloody End 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Not only did the Great War create the modern American military, but it was also a catalyst for the civil and women’s rights movements, and it carved up empires on the modern world map. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Schoettler’s “who knew?” look at women in the Great War does what she no doubt intends. ‘The Hello Girls’: Little-known chapter of war comes to life by telling it straight The sole non-fiction recommendation sums up the situation well enough: Forgotten Voices of the Great War. The first world war's great novelist: David Jones 2011-02-04T13:58:23Z Before the Great War, her cousin Marcel protects her, but when he returns from the fighting, grotesquely maimed, it’s Marcel that she and the child she bears him will need protection from. New French Fiction: From Farm to Table, With Feasting in Between 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Fussell wrote in "The Great War," his study of World War I that ranked No. 75 on the Modern Library's list of the greatest nonfiction books of the 20th century. Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88 2012-05-24T01:58:08Z In its heyday, from the late 1880s until the beginning of the Great War, the Hôtel Baudy was the center of the village’s thriving social scene. Monet’s ‘other’ masterpiece: His gardens at Giverny 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Most Americans soured on Wilson’s world-saving mission soon after the Great War ended and have only briefly embraced updated versions of it since — during the early Cold War and after the attacks of Sept. 11. Woodrow Wilson Achieved a Lot. So Why Is He So Scorned? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z So it’s quite interesting that these two outsiders have found somebody in each other who recognizes their particular gifts — gifts that no one else in the course of the Great War really possesses. Actor John Bradley From ‘Game of Thrones’ on Whether White Walkers Have Feelings, Too 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z One of the finalists in the design competition for the National World War I Memorial claims that the Great War is the “forgotten” war, but that’s certainly not for want of memorialization. America is chock-full of World War I memorials, so why build another one? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z “My questions were always met with the same answer: ‘Granddad was wounded in the Great War.’ A Traffic Jam Changed Her Life 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z In small increments only, as the "The Great War," an ingenious live animation film created by Dutch theater company Hotel Modern and composer Arthur Sauer, artfully demonstrated this weekend. 'The Great War's' portrayal of WWI battlefield horror proves ingenious 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z It features excerpts from pieces that appeared in the magazine as the Great War unfolded, including pieces by Gertrude Stein, H.G. Gertrude Stein meets the Great War with a zeppelin air raid 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z But he may be best remembered for “The Great War and Modern Memory,” his monumental study of World War I and how its horrors fostered a disillusioned modernist sensibility. Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88 2012-05-23T22:21:26Z For Mr. Hirschhorn the marooned Concordia was a powerful metaphor, one that spoke to the “uncertainty and precariousness” of contemporary life, much as the Titanic in 1912 encapsulated class differences just before the Great War. Art Review: Thomas Hirschhorn Exhibitions at Gladstone and Dia 2012-09-27T21:44:23Z In The Great War and Modern Memory, the answer to such murderous idealism is countered by the reaction to the trench warfare felt by such British writers as Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and Robert Graves. Paul Fussell, the critic who fought the cant of military sacrifice 2012-05-24T20:52:53Z Kaunas’s central post office, the HQ of dairy company Pienocentras and the city’s 1936 Great War Museum are all solidly art deco. 10 of the best European cities for art deco design 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The best books about World War I have often been oblique, like Paul Fussell’s “Great War and Modern Memory,” or novels, like Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front,” rather than comprehensive histories. Books of The Times: ?The Beauty and the Sorrow,? by Peter Englund - Review 2011-11-10T22:18:39Z "The Great War," REDCAT: More than 100 years have passed since the start of World War I, and we're still sorting through its manifold causes and lingering legacies. The best theater of 2015 highlights transformation and enduring power from L.A. to Broadway 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z “Grand Illusions” comes in the wake of a reappraisal of the Great War’s affect on American culture. How did American artists respond to the horror of WWI? 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z He is part of a group of people across Britain who spend their weekends paying tribute to the Great War fallen. For some history enthusiasts, World War One tributes go further 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z By slightly tampered, I mean it is a steampunk version of the Great War. Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld - review 2013-07-14T08:00:00Z For Fussell, the murderous idealism of the Great War was summed up in a newspaper notice a young volunteer published two days before the declaration of war. Paul Fussell, the critic who fought the cant of military sacrifice 2012-05-24T20:52:53Z Her ailment was caused because my parents were compelled to live in a disease-ridden mining slum at the end of the Great War. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Later he traced the origins of The Great War and Modern Memory, which marked such a change in his work, to his growing discomfort with the Vietnam war and what it showed about American society. Paul Fussell 2012-05-24T17:27:46Z For most people, the Great War evokes images of mud, gas masks and the trenches of the Western Front. UK museum looks at epic, intimate sides of WWI 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z In his book "The Great War of Our Time," former CIA deputy Director Michael Morell explains the blunder that led to Saddam Hussein being deposed and sent him into hiding in a spider hole. 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Nineteenth-century mourning rituals were lengthy and highly codified; the Great War made this impractical. The Great War, and Great Change for Women 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z "As we dug deeper, we realized the Great War was really the dawn of all-out warfare and paved the way for everything we've done in the past." The Great War? 'Battlefield' plots to make WWI entertaining 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z “The Great War,” written and directed by Steven Luke, stands to be a less remembered entry. ‘The Great War’ Review: A Segregated Black Unit Fights in World War I 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The Great War promises to enrich the Krzelewski mining company, but to ward off accusations of profiteering, they need a family war hero, preferably fallen. A Rifle-Wielding Nun, a Medical Student and a Crackling World War I Tale 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z But after a pregnant pause, she adds, “with someone like that,” indicating that she was speaking metaphorically instead of speaking about his experience during the Great War. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 4: 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Her latest novel, "Toby's Room," is also set during the Great War. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Pat Barker on 'Toby's Room' 2012-11-08T13:00:46Z “One hundred years of peace created the grand illusion that global interconnectedness and technological progress ensured a world of peace,” Ms. MacMillan said of the time just before the Great War. Margaret MacMillan Discusses Causes of World War I 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z In 1925, MGM's The Big Parade launched a vogue for films about the Great War; 24 years later, Battleground did the same for movies of the second world war. MGM gets sucked into a black hole of debt 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z Before the Great War, these estates were replete with staff to sustain not just the lives of the owners but the life of the estate itself. A garden the ‘Downton Abbey’ crowd would drool over 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Just 30 minutes outside Paris in Meaux, Europe’s largest First World War museum offers an excellent immersion into the Great War with reconstructed trenches, hanging fighter planes and interactive displays. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The Great War’s centennial, which starts this month, presents Americans with a fine opportunity to explore the important role their country — and their ancestors — played in that conflict. 100 Years of Gratitude 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z I lost my nearest friend in the one they called the Great War. Levels of Life by Julian Barnes – review 2013-04-10T12:08:06Z However, tThe Great War undeniably has a hold on British imaginations. Authors prepare to mark centenary of first world war with flood of new books 2013-06-09T08:30:02Z Now, 100 years later, cycling’s greatest race is paying special tribute to the millions who fought and died in what came to be known as the Great War. Tour de France marks World War I centennial 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z We glimpse “phosphorescent liquid” sprinkled on Hyde Park to divert German bomber airships away from populated zones during the Great War. Review | Francis Bacon was an elusive figure. A new biography presents novel details of his iconoclastic existence. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z The pair found delight at the sounds of jazz on city streets — just one influence of the Black soldiers who came to France for the Great War. A celebration of Black military heroism comes to Inglewood 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z They bring pause and introspection to just about everyone visiting the sites dotted along the former battle lines of the 1914-1918 Great War that killed some 10 million soldiers. World War I memorials in France and Belgium are vying again to become UNESCO World Heritage sites 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The Great War put an end to most of these great experiments. Germans. Hoosiers. Canadians! How they shaped the Southern California we know today 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z They sound familiar, just as the massive profiteering from the "Great War" has its counterparts in the endlessly bullish marketplace for Pentagon contracts. "Soldiers Don't Go Mad": A stunning account of poetry, paradox and the horrors of war 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z By 1918, the Great War was over, but the country stayed on a war footing internally. San Pedro. Exterior. Dusk. Upton Sinclair arrested for reading the 1st Amendment 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Almost no one would have believed that another “Great War” would occur in twenty years. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the men begin “their ‘Great War’: what a preposterous masculine fiction,” further proof that the world they run keeps women at their bloody mercy. A novelist makes a beautiful hash out of feminist histories. But something's missing 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The Great War was raging, revolutionary fervor building, the grim reaper never busier. Review | Up close with the sexiest nudes in modern art 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The Great War also saw tsarist Russia fall to revolution, with the Bolsheviks establishing the Soviet Union. Will Seattle ever reclaim its status as a vibrant ‘superstar city’? 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z With recent war films such as “Dunkirk” and “1917” already in the pop-culture ether, there was even more pressure on Berger to ensure every shot uniquely depicts the epic scale of the Great War. How these three features — from three countries — were inspired by historical events 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z My inner eye still sees him enthroned in his leather easy chair, leaning forward to drive home a fascinating thought about the role of The Great War in technophobic, anti-SF story lines. Reflecting on the life of Greg Bear: Who he was and what he is 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z “American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis” describes vividly a time when racism, white nationalism, and anti-foreign and anti-immigrant sentiment were rampant. Review | How a forgotten American crisis led to democratic renewal 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z “Why has there been no serious effort at peace talks? What happened to the United Nations’ primary mission — to avoid another Great War in Europe?” Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar invites Zelenskyy, Putin to Arizona for Ukraine-Russia peace talks 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Hochschild returns to early 20th-century history in his newest book, "American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis." Adam Hochschild on history and the orange man: "We haven't had a figure exactly like him before" 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z The bonus tracks fit tonally with the rest of the darkly electric and moody album, beginning with “The Great War,” sweeping across “Paris” and exploring “High Infidelity” before ending with “Dear Reader.” Taylor Swift drops ‘3am’ edition of ‘Midnights,’ music video 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z No wonder the recipe is a secret; it could be weaponized in the event your employer Uncle Sam decides to finally enter that European bloodbath the papers are already calling the second Great War. The Zombie is a buzz and a killer with 3 kinds of rum and a sugary punch 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z When he finally returns home, he reunites with his orphaned sister, but soon he feels inspired to enlist with the Germans and help them in the approaching Great War. Review | Never read Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah? Start with ‘Afterlives’ 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The decade was not a pleasure cruise for everyone, however; in the wake of the Great War, many were left awaiting the promise of a new generation. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The full title of your new book is "American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis." Adam Hochschild on history and the orange man: "We haven't had a figure exactly like him before" 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z He became the first American hero of the Great War and received the Croix de Guerre, one of France’s highest military honors. Breaking with the cult of the Confederacy 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Comically at first, then horribly, this insult sets in a motion escalating power moves, betrayals and bloody murders constituting a kind of Great War over control of organized crime between New York and Boston. Review | Don Winslow is giving up novels for politics. His latest book is a gem. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z To him, the so-called Great War was about the working class suffering and dying for the benefit of the wealthy few. Right-wing snowflakes love to whine about free speech — this socialist went to jail for it 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z The playing field would change one year later in 1914 when the United States witnessed the unfolding of World War I, or “the Great War.” U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z At the time, people called it the Great War. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanford University’s president agreed: “The Great War of Europe, ever threatening ... will never come. ... The bankers will not find the money for such a fight, the industries of Europe will not maintain it.” Opinion | The West gives Putin a refresher course in physics — and judo 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The enormous suffering that resulted from the Great War left a deep mark on Western society as well. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z James D. Robenalt is the author of four nonfiction books, including “The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War.” 100 years ago, a president forgave his opponent’s alleged subversion 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z The Great War was unlike any war that came before it. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z "Homes Fit for Heroes" had been the promise made by Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George, two years before at the end of the Great War. 'Can you help us?' - secrets of 100-year-old census unearthed 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z The author deftly narrates the military action of the Great War for Empire and then offers a vivid account of the protests against the new, harsher British colonial policies that end in revolution. Review | How the Revolutionary War created a nation — and divided its citizens 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The Great War left every major European country nearly bankrupt. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When Wilson went on an extended trip to Paris to negotiate the end of the Great War, Marshall on Dec. 10, 1918, became the first vice president ever to preside over a Cabinet meeting. He thought the vice presidency was useless — until Woodrow Wilson had a stroke 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z She lived for many years in Europe; during the Great War, she worked in Paris helping women establish businesses. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The catastrophe of the Great War, as it was then called, had claimed 116,000 Americans, through combat, disease and other causes, and killed millions more people around the world. Veterans Day ceremony to mark centennial of America’s Tomb of the Unknowns 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The guns of August 1914 announced the beginning of what was called the Great War until an even worse one began nine days after the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact of Aug. 23, 1939. Opinion | She leads Estonia’s democracy while keeping an eye on ‘the bully next door’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z The Great War, as the conflict came to be known, affected everyone. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z America was never the same after the U.S. joined the ‘Great War’ After World War I, U.S. families were asked if they wanted their dead brought home. Forty thousand said yes. 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z His growing family had moved to Bremerton, where the shipyard repaired vessels for the looming Great War. How a Japanese immigrant stood up to the injustices of his day with a pioneering civil rights message that resonates in ours 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z "In some ways the Great War shifted America's thinking about ourselves and redefined our place in the world," President Biden said in recorded remarks played during Friday's dedication ceremony. World War I Memorial opens to the public in Washington -- one day after loud flyover during dedication 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z “In some ways the Great War shifted America’s thinking about ourselves and redefined our place in the world,” Biden said. Ceremony heralds opening of WWI Memorial in Washington 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Reviewing Ernest Hemingway’s first two books, “Three Stories and Ten Poems” and “In Our Time,” Wilson celebrated the early short stories of a Midwestern-bred newspaperman who’d served in the Great War. Ken Burns' new Hemingway documentary doesn't give you a reason to read Hemingway 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z This wealthy British aristocrat, afflicted with Great War flashbacks, takes up detective work as an entertaining hobby before becoming an invaluable asset to Scotland Yard. Which fictional detective is the greatest? You decide. Not since the 1970s has there been such an important discovery from the Great War in France. Discovering WW1 tunnel of death hidden in France for a century 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z “The Star-Spangled Banner” was sung during the seventh inning of Game 1 of the 1918 World Series, a year and a half into the Great War. Op-Ed: Mark Cuban was right the first time. We should stop singing the national anthem at ballgames 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z For those two weeks, the front page of the local newspaper was split vertically down the middle: one side covered the Great War, and the other side, the “Spanish flu.” Stories from a Past Pandemic 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Two months after Thanksgiving he would issue his Fourteen Points that he hoped would shape the peace that followed what became known as the Great War, themes that he presaged in his Thanksgiving proclamation. Giving thanks, expressing hope: presidential wishes at Thanksgiving 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z All ninth-graders read history and literature about the Great War, then divide into two armies, which clash on a March morning with squirt rifles and water balloons. Perspective | Progressive education hard to pin down because it’s everywhere 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z "If I can help just one family to trace an ancestor who died in the tunnel, it will have been worth it," says Mark Beirnaert, a genealogist and Great War researcher. Discovering WW1 tunnel of death hidden in France for a century 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z The train would take him to Camp Meade in Maryland, where he would be taught how to fight in the Great War. Perspective | New research tells the story of Black Washingtonians killed during World War I 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z But that world had just been transformed by the Great War, and there had been enough of the grim reality that Puccini poignantly underscored in his verismo operas. The Tao of 'Turandot': Why there's no escaping Puccini's opera 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z After the stories that are now in the public domain, and before the Copyrighted Stories, the Great War happened. Watch the trailer for Enola Holmes, the Sherlock Holmes movie that landed Netflix a lawsuit 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The hospital in the novel is desperately understaffed — in addition to the flu, the Great War is on — and Julia is suddenly given responsibility for the women in her care. Emma Donoghue wrote her terrifying pandemic novel before COVID, thanks very much 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The first is historian Eric Hobsbawm's description of the era between the Great War and World War II, a period of massive social, political and technological transformation and the collapse of elite leadership. Fifth of July: An Independence Day like no other, and the real struggle lies ahead 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z The first is historian Eric Hobsbawm's description of the era between the Great War and World War II, a period of massive social, political, and technological transformation and the collapse of elite leadership. The secret of his success: Donald Trump's six weird tricks for authoritarian rule 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z In his book, “The Great War of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism from al-Qaida to ISIS,” former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell writes that his confidence level was at 60 percent. Only verified intelligence? A look at presidents’ briefings 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Mike Reis pointed out that Lyles died just as the United States was sending its first soldiers off to the Great War. Perspective | A drowning in 1917 inspires detective work and memories of the Smoot name 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Then, that changed because of his creator’s life experiences: After the stories that are now in the public domain, and before the Copyrighted Stories, the Great War happened. Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate sues Netflix for giving Sherlock Holmes too many feelings 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z We’re nowhere near the Great War scheme where London papers printed columns of names, the losses. When we were quarantined 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z The occasion was the interment of the Great War’s Unknown Soldier. Perspective | Almost 90,000 dead and no hint of national mourning. Are these deaths not ‘ours’? 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z During the pandemic of 1918, the World Series was held after a regular season abbreviated not because of influenza, but because of the Great War in Europe. The Healing Power of Baseball 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z In February, a grenade from the Great War was discovered on a beach in the U.K. after a series of storms unearthed the object. While passing the time during coronavirus pandemic, family finds live WWI grenade 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z U.S. relations with even Britain and France, its allies in the Great War, were strained and almost hostile. Opinion | We’re a nation all too ripe for another shock 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z In April 1919, Wilson traveled to the Paris Peace Conference for talks on ending the Great War. In 1918, the Spanish flu infected the White House. Even President Wilson got sick. 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z As Live Science reported, cases began to trickle off as WWI ended and soldiers dispersed — though not before the flu reportedly killed more U.S. soldiers than any battle during the Great War. Ways the coronavirus outbreak could end, according to experts 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z The "Great War" refers to what the New Testament calls Armageddon. Nancy Grace: Idaho mother of missing kids 'no doubt' lying to authorities 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z A century after the guns of that Great War were silenced, there is no one left to tell of its terrors. Those who survived the horrors of ’1917′ still honored 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z It’s the story of Joe Bonham, lying in his hospital bed in agony and despair with his arms, legs and face blown off by an artillery shell, remembering his life before the Great War. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Born in Peru, Indiana, in 1891 to the wealthiest family in town—perhaps the wealthiest in all of Indiana—he went to Yale right before the Great War. The Pleasure and Pain of Being Cole Porter 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Although the Great War looms over every moment of the staging, it never becomes clear whether we are experiencing Wozzeck’s nightmarish premonitions of the conflict or his shell-shocked recollections of it. Operatic Shows of Force 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The Great War has also inspired filmmakers over the past century. World War I inspired some cinematic masterpieces. Here are a few of them 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z In the Great War, the battle wasn’t about the destruction of evil; in fact, the real fight was survival — which is the story we wanted to tell in ‘1917.’ Why World War I films, like '1917,' have a different feel than those about WWII 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z He looked at the painters of the time and read “Poets of the Great War,”an anthology of 25 poets, almost daily on set. Why George MacKay could identify with his '1917' soldier character 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The armistice to end the Great War was signed in November 1918, but the 339th was not immediately withdrawn and the fighting continued. America's forgotten war with Russia: new documentary 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s instructive to compare this brilliant but somehow hollow affair with “The Head and the Load,” Kentridge’s monumental theatrical tribute to African soldiers who served in the Great War. Operatic Shows of Force 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Released three months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, “Sergeant York” harkens back to the Great War and hero Alvin C. York, who hailed from humble roots in Tennessee. World War I inspired some cinematic masterpieces. Here are a few of them 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z In 1914, when the Great War erupted, Britain was still a great power, presiding over a far-flung empire, though it emerged from the conflict bruised and battered. Even in discordant times, a poignant national symbol endures in Britain. It's small and red 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Unlike the previous Great War of 1914-1918, which was fought for mere empire, Hitler’s war was understood in distinctly Manichaean terms as both apocalyptic and transcendent. What the dismantling of the Berlin Wall means 30 years later 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z As Washington prepared to host its first-ever World Series, a soldier injured in the Great War — “helpless and palsied and in his early twenties” — showed up at Griffith Stadium hoping for a job selling peanuts. Perspective | In October 1924, all Washington could think about was its first-ever World Series 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z American military officials believed the Great War would last longer than it did, and therefore, hadn’t put much thought into figuring out how to get their soldiers home in a timely manner. 100 years ago: American soldiers who served in World War I competed in ‘Olympic-style’ Inter-Allied Games 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Many assumed that technological advances would ensure the Second World War was less horrific than the Great War. D-Day veteran: 'I looked at the wounded and I cried' 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Some three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives in what was then called the Great War. Even in discordant times, a poignant national symbol endures in Britain. It's small and red 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Troops in the Great War sometimes were referred to as “doughboys,” and that is how the statue honoring them has come to be known. West Virginia editorial roundup 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z All the soldiers of the Great War deserve our attention and our thoughts, not merely on Memorial Day, but always. Trump stokes racial resentment to hinder Biden’s rise 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The poem resonated with British and American veterans of the Great War, as it honored those killed during the conflict and grappled with the struggles of survivors. Poppy wall exhibit returns to National Mall for Memorial Day 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Einstein's ideas were trapped by the blockades of the Great War, and even more by the vicious nationalism that made "enemy" science unwelcome in the UK. The man who made Einstein world-famous 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “We have won the Great War,” Daenerys proudly announced in last week’s episode. For better or worse, the Iron Throne is Game of Thrones’ endgame 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z If our enemies in the Great War could use mass media to direct the thoughts and ambitions of their citizens, would we rather lose the fight by self-restraint? On federal logorrhea 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The government called them “homes fit for heroes” – the men who had fought and won the Great War. Special Report: Wish You Weren't Here - Postcards from the Edge of... 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Each flower represents a single known U.S. combat casualty since the Great War through the modern-day conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. Poppy wall exhibit returns to National Mall for Memorial Day 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Her first book, “Fruits of Victory: The Woman’s Land Army in the Great War” was excerpted in Smithsonian Magazine online and featured on C-Span and public radio stations nationwide. Author of ‘The Woman’s Hour’ headlines Literary Festival 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Luton Town Hall was damaged in July 1919 by people disillusioned with conditions after the Great War in what became known as the Peace Day riots. Peace riots used in City of Culture bid 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Army veteran of the Great War, lawyer, inventor, self-trained architect and unabashed huckster — collected his thoughts and published them in a tiny book called “Simposiums.” Perspective | A building shaped like a dog once greeted motorists on Maryland’s Route 1 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Justice Elena Kagan noted that the memorial was 93 years old and was erected at a time when crosses were a common way to honor the fallen in the Great War. Supreme Court Seems Ready to Allow Cross Honoring War Dead 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z But the big one, the Great War for the narrative, is being fought over the story of America. Opinion | America’s War of Stories 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Second, the Great War also had an outsized impact here in other, critical ways. Setting the record straight on the 1919 Seattle General Strike 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Or, as Scott put it in a chapter at the end of his 1919 history on black participation in the Great War: “Did the Negro soldier get a square deal?” Perspective | When World War I raged, a D.C. professor fought for black officers’ participation 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Jackson asserts, reasonably, that if the cameramen of the Great War could have shot in color with sound they would have. A Few Thoughts on the Authenticity of Peter Jackson’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Her maternal grandfather was a cantor at a prominent Cologne synagogue; her father, Marcus, a lawyer, had emigrated from Poland during the Great War. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The American Legion formed when their surviving comrades returned to America after the Great War. Opinion | The Bladensburg Peace Cross is a fitting tribute 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The Americans who returned to their homes in rural Pennsylvania had seen the horrors of the Great War and the sophistication of Paris. Battlefield letters tell soldiers’ stories of World War I 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z As the United States prepared to enter the Great War, the Army announced that 14 officer training camps would be established. Perspective | When World War I raged, a D.C. professor fought for black officers’ participation 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z In the First World War, the Great War, the one that we are commemorating now, the Germans were the ones who regretted having fought the French. Wine, War, Donald Trump, and Emmanuel Macron 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Fifty million troops were killed or wounded in the Great War, and it wasn’t nationalism that caused it. ‘As an American, you are in it with them’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Soldiers returning from the battlefields of the Great War, for example, were less likely than earlier combatants to speak of what they’d gone through, finding ordinary language incommensurate with the horrors of mechanical warfare. How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The Great War was ending so New York City went wild, from its harbors to churches and streets and skyscrapers. A Joyous Letter Speaks of War’s End 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Kearsey said the rain that fell during the ceremony for the centenary of the armistice “is very fitting” since soldiers who fought in trenches during the Great War endured miserable rain and mud. Australian man honors father maimed in WWI, other soldiers 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The technology of war occupies a huge portion of our articles related to the Great War. Armistice Day: November 11, 1918 to November 11, 2018 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The ceremonies in Poland coincide with world leaders gathering in Paris on Sunday to mark the armistice of what was then called the Great War. The Latest: Poland celebrates rebirth a century after WWI 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z “In a world of increased globalization, radicalization and national tensions, it’s clear that the lessons of the Great War endure to this day,” Naylor said in a statement. U.S. marks 100th anniversary of end to WWI with poppies, Bells of... 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z In his book “The Great War and Modern Memory,” Fussell calculated that there were 25,000 miles of trench lines on the Western Front, enough to encircle the earth. The day the guns fell silent 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z More than 3 million French and German troops were among an estimated 10 million soldiers who died in the Great War of 1914-1918. Leaders of France and Germany in poignant show of unity 100 years... 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z “The Great War was above all a war of sounds, the whistling of the shells for example … many soldiers died because they didn’t listen to the sounds,” Stieghorst said in an interview. Trump misses cemetery visit as Macron and Merkel vow unity 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z A black line was also scored through the words "of the Great War" and replaced by "1 jarnoil". Sikh soldier memorial statue vandalised 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z World War One, also known as the Great War, ended when world leaders at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month signed an armistice ending four years of bloody battles. U.S. marks 100th anniversary of end to WWI with poppies, Bells of... 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Today, they are emerging as unsung heroes of the Great War. Unsung heroes, animals were vital part of WWI war machine 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Ormsby Pasley, recognising the significance of the order, kept a copy, which he stuffed in his pocket and brought back to Ireland with him more than a year after the Great War ended. Armistice note discovered in Dublin house 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z One minute later, under the terms of an armistice signed about six hours earlier, the so-called Great War, the “war to end all wars,” was over, and the world was an altered place. The Courage and Folly of a War That Left Indelible Scars 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The statue Lions of the Great War was commissioned by the Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick temple and was unveiled on 4 November. Sikh soldier memorial statue vandalised 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Two months after the 339th arrived in Archangel, the Great War came to an end with the signing of the armistice in a train carriage parked in a French forest. The One Time American Troops Fought Russians Was at the End of World War I—and They Lost 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, is dedicated to sharing the stories and honoring the history of the devastating conflict, dubbed “the Great War.” World War I posters offer unique glimpse into soldiers' stories 100 years after the Armistice 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z In more recent years, that has changed again both politically and socially when it comes to remembering the dead of the Great War. Armistice note discovered in Dublin house 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z A study by think tank British Future found just 22% of people in Britain knew Muslims had fought in the Great War. The forgotten Muslim soldiers of World War One 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The museum’s theater will screen veteran-related films all weekend, and there are multiple World War I exhibits, including “Uniformed Women in the Great War” and “Advertising War: Selling Americans on World War I.” How you can commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Yet three months after the Nov. 11 armistice ended the Great War, they were instead fighting Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia’s frigid European north. The One Time American Troops Fought Russians Was at the End of World War I—and They Lost 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Precisely a century since the Great War ended, the stories of the Europeans who fought for freedom are well documented. The Caribbean's overlooked WW1 soldiers 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z But he acknowledged the marshal's pivotal role in the Great War that earned him the nickname "Lion of Verdun." Macron praises WWI general who later collaborated with Nazis 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z SAT-SUN Celebrate recognition of the 100 year anniversary of the end of the “Great War,” World War I; panel discussion on lessons of World War I, 7:30-9 p.m. Community calendar: Veterans Day events, International Auto Show, bazaars/sales and more 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The school says “‘Over There’ With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War” provides glimpses of the day-to-day lives, longings and horrific realities of war the soldiers experienced on the Western Front. Library exhibit features letters written by WWI soldiers 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z It didn’t go well for the Americans, a loss all but erased from the country’s collective historical memory on the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War. The One Time American Troops Fought Russians Was at the End of World War I—and They Lost 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Maine State Librarian James Ritter says the state’s looking for collections hidden away in closets and attics that tell the stories of Mainers in the “Great War.” Mainers to scan World War II mementoes all day long 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z November 11 marks the centenary of the Armistice agreement that brought the Great War to an end. This bullet-scarred Bible ‘saved the life’ of a World War I soldier 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z It’s 1950, smack in the middle of the century, and she knows that the Second Great War is over and women were the real winners. “The Rise and Rise of Annie Clark” 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z But most notably, it helped bring an end to The Great War. America's deadliest battle: World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive 100 years later 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z A flag covered a bronze tablet, and a Gold Star mother who had lost a son to the Great War stood ready. Who are the 49 World War I servicemen stirring a legal battle over a giant cross? 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The carnage of the Great War left a legacy of lives not lived, of marriages which never happened, of children never born. Couple find relatives died together in WW1 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Paul Reynaud, the Prime Minister, had plenty of room to fall back and reorganize, as the French had done successfully in the Great War. How Charles de Gaulle Rescued France 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Pax Americana is still 30 years younger than Pax Britannica — which ended catastrophically in 1914 with the Great War — but it’s been a long run. Seattle’s a bad fit for Trump’s nationalism and a less open world 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z It will be Germany’s last great push of the Great War. A Lost Love Gave Us Hemingway’s Spare Prose 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Higginson was not the only noted female author of her period to suffer this fate, as a publishing world run largely by and for men rebooted in the choppy wake of the Great War. A Western Washington University professor works to ‘recover’ the legacy of Ella Rhoads Higginson 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Dr. Jonathan Reid, “Vampyr’s” hero or antihero depending on your orchestration of his conduct, is a veteran of The Great War. Review | One foot in the grave and one on solid ground in ‘Vampyr’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Joyce toiled over his great book during the Great War, World War I, which was supposed to end all wars. Bloomsday Tribute to James Joyce, Greatest Mind-Scientist Ever 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z “The Unknown Soldier was about closure for the Great War, but it was also about healing in the United States.” Patrick K. O’Donnell identifies 8 soldiers buried at Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z No doubt Saudi and Israeli leaders will cheer, Europeans who remember their Great War will scratch their heads in wonder, and the Chinese will laugh themselves silly. Not so great wars — theirs and ours 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z This year’s theme is “The Great War - 100 Years Remembered.” North Dakota Veterans Cemetery hosting Memorial Day program 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z This year’s theme is “The Great War — 100 Years Remembered.” North Dakota Veterans Cemetery hosting Memorial Day program 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z With Buckles’ generation now gone, it’s up to their children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to help historians make sure the stories of the Great War don’t fade forever. Central Texas groups seek information on World War I vets 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Kathleen Golden, who curates that exhibit, said Stubby is popular, especially with teachers who are able to use his story as a way to begin the discussion of the Great War with young students. Movie puts famed war dog Stubby back in the spotlight 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z But let me note for the record that the centenary of the conflict once known as The Great War is well underway and before the present year ends will have concluded. Not so great wars — theirs and ours 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Set the scene for us, Patricia, by describing the position of women scientists in Britain before The Great War, and how the conflict changed it. How World War I Gave Women Scientists a Chance to Shine 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z Before joining the newspaper, our protagonist flew for the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. The Great War flashbacks are lovely, e.g. Hard-drinking newspapermen and tough-talking brutes populate David Mamet's novel 'Chicago' 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Milne’s intricate life in early 20th century England, covering his return from the “Great War,” his difficulty with post-traumatic stress disorder and finding inspiration from his son for his most memorable work. Blu-ray reviews: ‘Professor Marston and the Wonder Women’ & ‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’ 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Police detective Bill Bastrop is desperate to catch the Axman, in the hope of redeeming an act of cowardice in the Great War. Mysteries: The Killer in the Crescent City 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z In the years that followed, Americans demoted The Great War. Not so great wars — theirs and ours 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z A second exhibition opening the same day - “The Commonwealth and the Great War” - will highlight the role of Virginia and Virginians in the war, including major universities such as Virginia Tech and Virginia Military Institute. Virginia Historical Society to host World War I exhibition 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z “WW1 America,” the largest traveling exhibition about the Great War, is set to open on Feb. 17. Virginia Historical Society to host World War I exhibition 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Some American soldiers sent abroad to fight the Great War carried the virus with them. We are not ready for the influenza pandemic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z T-51b / T-60 power armor, Fallout This set of armor was the standard issue for soldiers in the United States Army's Mechanized Cavalry Regiments before the Great War in the Fallout franchise. 18 suits of power armor from science fiction you don’t want to meet on the battlefield 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Or more bluntly, how did the people in charge during The Great War get away with inflicting such extraordinary damage on the nations and peoples for which they were responsible? Not so great wars — theirs and ours 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z "The Great War" was overtaken in the national consciousness by the Great Depression and World War II, says Edwin Fountain, vice-chairman of the WWI Centennial Commission. Has the US forgotten about World War One? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z A second exhibition opening the same day — “The Commonwealth and the Great War” — will highlight the role of Virginia and Virginians in the war, including major universities such as Virginia Tech and Virginia Military Institute. Virginia Historical Society to host World War I exhibition 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z MPs used a Westminster debate to pay tribute to the "overlooked" sacrifices of women, as nurses, combatants and home front workers, in the Great War. No kidding... Mum's Army to be called up? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Armistice Day originally commemorated the millions who died in the Great War, but now also remembers those killed in World War II and subsequent conflicts. Veterans Day marked with parades, somber ceremonies 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Of course, our post-9/11 military enterprise — the undertaking once known as the Global War on Terrorism — differs from The Great War in myriad ways. Not so great wars — theirs and ours 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z A domed temple on the National Mall commemorates the 26,000 veterans from Washington, DC, who served in the Great War, including 499 who lost their lives. Has the US forgotten about World War One? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Landmarks Illinois President and CEO Bonnie McDonald says the program provides a “critical funding for aging historical markers that pay homage to local heroes who served in the Great War.” Effort underway to locate, preserve Illinois WWI memorials 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z More than 100,000 women joined Britain's armed forces during the Great War, serving as, among other roles, pilots, wrens in the Royal Navy and ambulance drivers. No kidding... Mum's Army to be called up? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The project spans the period from the end of the Great War through to what will in 2018 be the 70th anniversary of the British Nationality Act. Celebrating black and Asian life in England 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z But his century-old image is now available online, along with dozens of other pictures of African American soldiers from the Great War on the website of the Library of Congress. African American World War I soldiers served at a time racism was rampant in the U.S. 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The vase made from an artillery shell will be part of “For Home and Country: Louisiana in the Great War,” at the Capitol Park Museum through June 9. 3 Baton Rouge museums showcase Louisiana in World War I 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The role the American Red Cross played in the Great War is the subject of a modest new exhibit at the charity’s headquarters. Perspective | Remembering the great things the Red Cross did during the Great War 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z “When the Great War is over,” she tells them, “Perhaps you’ll remember I chose to help. Without promises or assurances from any of you. I expect not.” The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 7, The Wolf and the Dragon 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The chair now resides at the farm where he lived, a newly-refurbished museum and visitor centre to remember both the poet and the sacrifice of his community during the Great War. Hedd Wyn: The shepherd poet of Passchendaele - BBC News 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z VERDUN, France — What the Europeans called “The Great War” was not going well in the early spring of 1917. France tour shows where American WWI heroes were made 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z “Campaigning for Victory : Poster Art of the Great War” will be shown at the castle-shaped Old State Capitol through Dec. 17. 3 Baton Rouge museums showcase Louisiana in World War I 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z In the late 1990s, neighboring countries were sucked into what became known as the Great War of Africa, which resulted in several million deaths. When Will Kabila Go? Congolese Leader Long Overstays His Welcome 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z The Great War, so-called before the advent of World War II, is one of the nation’s many forgotten wars, evidenced by the fact that there is no national memorial to the conflict on the Mall. Opinion | Why does World War I still get second-rate treatment in our capital? 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Racial barriers also were broken at Meade during the Great War. Fort Meade centennial looks through history 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Season 7 starts in a month, and the so-called Great War is about to begin. This Game of Thrones compilation claims there were 150,966 deaths throughout the show 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s a powerful lure for archaeologist Martin Brown, one of a handful of European researchers who investigate battlefields of the Great War. This Explosion Was the Biggest Blast Before Atomic Bombs 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z After all, the Great War, as it was initially called, sucked up lives at a rate of almost 50,000 a day at one point. All war is senseless, this new one especially so 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Though missing an arm and leg from the Great War, he doesn’t act disabled, readily expressing his irritation at an unfurled banner of Stalin over his windows by puncturing it with his crutch. A political filmmaker's swan song chronicles a haunting close to an artist's life 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z After the Great War, Jannotta became a successful businessman while serving in the Navy Reserve. Perspective | In 1918, a U.S. Navy ship sank. Last week, a piece of it surfaced in Maryland. 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Here’s a collection of some favorite nonfiction books about the Great War, perfect for the reader who wants a refresher, or wants to better understand this important centenary. 5 books you should read to learn more about World War I 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Like thousands of other Great War soldiers, his remains were never recovered. This Explosion Was the Biggest Blast Before Atomic Bombs 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, with defeat at the hands of the Allies all but assured in the Great War, Turkish authorities began rounding up the Empire’s Armenian population for systematic extermination. Armenian genocide depicted in ‘The Promise’ starring Oscar Isaac, Christian Bale 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Soon the West turned its attention elsewhere: to industrialization and mass production, to the Great War and the Second World War, to rail and to air and eventually to space, that frontierless frontier. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Lawrence’s story may be unique, but thousands of other Wisconsin residents played instrumental roles in the Great War, which the U.S. entered 100 years ago last Thursday. Museum chronicles Wisconsin stories from the Great War 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z If you’re new to Great War scholarship, or just want to revisit noteworthy moments without getting bogged down in minutiae, Tuchman is the ticket. 5 books you should read to learn more about World War I 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The Great War showed that tight economic ties and trade among nations were not guaranteed to prevent conflict on a historic scale. North Korea’s real danger to the world economy 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z American Experience Part 2 of the new miniseries “The Great War” details the United States’ entry into World War I, including President Wilson’s efforts to gain public support and the raising of a massive army. Tuesday's TV highlights: 'Prison Break' on Fox 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z American Experience The 100th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I is marked by the new three-night miniseries “The Great War.” Monday's TV highlights: 'Angie Tribeca,' 'Better Call Saul' and more 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z He wanted America to join the Great War in Europe. As a vote on entering World War I approached, the only woman in Congress faced an agonizing choice 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Alas, for most Americans, the “Great War” holds little interest, particularly compared with the Civil War, World War II and Vietnam — all conflicts remembered as titanic moral struggles that transformed the nation. Opinion | Five myths about World War I 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Monday night and the next two nights, PBS’s “American Experience” will present a six-hour documentary, “The Great War.” Opinion | What World War I unleashed in America 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z “The Great War” introduced a 19th-century world to modern ideas and technologies, many of which required inexpensive crude. World War I ushered in the century of oil: Now it’s necessary for national stability, security 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z “American Experience” remembers the United States’ role in helping to fight and win WWI in the new three-part episode “The Great War.” TV This Week, April 9-15: 'Mystery Science Theater 3000,' 'Suicide Squad,' and more 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The U.S. joined the ‘Great War’ 100 years ago. ‘Hiding real black history’: Lawsuit fights plan to move historic cemetery at MGM casino’s doorstep 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Foreign dignitaries from around the world are converging on Kansas City, Missouri, and its towering World War I monument to observe the 100th anniversary of the day the U.S. entered “The Great War.” The Latest: Event marks 100 years since US entered WWI 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z These transformations are vividly chronicled in the American Experience TV series, The Great War, starting on PBS on 10 April. The first world war helped shape modern America. Why is it so forgotten? 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z In those days, it was called the “Great War,” or simply “the world war,” because no other like it was imaginable. The U.S. joined the ‘Great War’ 100 years ago. America and warfare were never the same. 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z “Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I” The exhibition depicts U.S. involvement in and experiences during the Great War. Going Out Guide for the District, March 30-April 5, 2017 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z A hundred years ago, America’s entry into the Great War, raging in Europe, attended a spike in paranoid hostilities toward immigrants believed to be sympathetic toward hostile powers. The Steve King Style of American Politics 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The library’s exhibit, titled “Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I,” opens April 4, two days before the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into the war. WWII made George Patton a hero, but the ‘Great War’ made him a commander 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z It was called the Great War, the World War, but finally became known as World War I. Waterloo museum prepares World War I exhibit 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Machon hopes communities will take advantage of the exhibit to educate Missourians about the sacrifices of African Americans during the Great War. Missouri military museum gets ‘Black Heritage Month’ exhibit 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z During the 1930s the corpse factory lie was used by the Nazis as proof of British lies during the Great War. The corpse factory and the birth of fake news - BBC News 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z By the time the Great War began, Medicine Hat factories were producing dozens of products, “from manhole covers to candy,” according to Medicine Hat’s history museum. A Canadian City Thrives on Gas, Like a ‘Wealthy Little Country’ 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z After the Armistice in 1918, Churchill wrote that “The conclusion of the Great War raised England to the highest position she has yet attained.” Will Trump’s presidency finally kill the myth of the special relationship? 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The Great War, in other words, is under way, and Adam, now a student at Oxford, joins up too. Simon Tolkien’s ‘No Man’s Land:’ a haunting novel of WWI 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z And the soldier, whose name and fate are unknown, is headed for the front lines and the killing machine of the Great War. An American filmed the German army in WWI — until they became the enemy 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The first of the exhibits - The Great War in Broad Outlines - is set to open March 6. Atlanta History Center to host World War I exhibitions 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Another fact about the so-called Great War is that every state sent soldiers. Gautier museum educates public about World War I 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The U.S. entered the Great War, a milestone in its rise as a superpower. Donald Trump, Chicago, Jobs Report: Your Friday Briefing 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The United States entered what was then known as the Great War, a milestone in its rise toward becoming a superpower. Donald Trump, ‘Brexit,’ Israel: Your Friday Briefing 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z With American involvement in the Great War, the U.S. abandoned an isolationist tradition that dated to its earliest days. What 1917 Set In Motion, We’re Still Playing Out Today 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Though the United States would not enter the Great War for 21/2 years, the people of Newport News saw the first sign of an increasingly crucial connection in late November. Newport News became a springboard for WWII war horses 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z The Great War — one of the deadliest conflicts of the modern era — claimed the lives of 5 million Allied troops and over 3 million Central Powers soldiers. French president, Britain's Prince Harry mark Armistice Day 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The University of Tennessee-Martin says the 2016 Tennessee Great War Commission Symposium will be held in West Tennessee on Nov. 4 through Nov. 6. Symposium on World War I to be held in West Tennessee 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z “As we dug deeper, we realized the Great War was really the dawn of all-out warfare and paved the way for everything we’ve done in the past.” The Great War? ‘Battlefield’ plots to make WWI entertaining 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Today, visitors seldom stop at the crypt of the young aviator, with its carved scenes from the Great War and the flags of the United States and France on either side. Long entombed at National Cathedral, a forgotten hero of WWI is recalled 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z He twice served as acting director and is the author of “The Great War of Our Time” – in part a story of public service on the part of CIA officers. The Responsibility to Serve 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z They leap barriers and barbed wire, hopping handily over boxes, low walls, and the other detritus of the Great War. Battlefield 1's horses are the best video game horses ever 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Its vision of the Great War is as noisy, dangerous, and brutal as the real thing was. The 30 games we can't wait to play this holiday season 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The Great War soon destroyed any notion that sport could transcend international disputes. How we got to the Olympic mess that is the Rio Games 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The long-term advocate of appeasing Germany in order to avoid another Great War was chastened and vilified by the disastrous Norway Campaign in 1940, which failed to prevent Hitler's invasion of that country. 13 Downing Street departures - BBC News 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z A Great War Memorial Garden is being opened in Caernarfon Castle to pay tribute to the Welsh soldiers killed or wounded in the Battle of Mametz Wood. Services remember Mametz Wood and Wales' soldiers - BBC News 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Doug's father fought in World War Two and his grandfather in the Great War. Chilcot report: The bereaved still looking for the truth - BBC News 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z George F. Will’s June 30 op-ed, “The hinge of the Great War,” was an important reminder of history and its continuing influence. The faults of Western civilization 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The Great War, as World War I was known, was only half-done, but already its industrial carnage had no parallel in European history. How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “I knew that it was such an iconic and valuable piece of Great War history, it had to be saved,” he said. Son of a bus mechanic preserves hallowed crater from WWI 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Dyer’s travelogue details his efforts to understand the way the British have memorialized the Great War, from statues and battlefields to songs and documentaries. 7 World War I Books to Read on the Battle of the Somme's Centennial 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In the fourth volume of his account of the first world war, published in 1929, Churchill had grandiloquently pronounced: “The conclusion of the Great War raised England to the highest position she has yet attained.” Europhobia: a very British problem | Geoffrey Wheatcroft 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Would the soldiers of the Great War warn us of the unpredictability of human conflict, or would they remind us of our capacity for total destruction? Why political rallies should be held at national cemeteries 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Even the Great War had the decency to take place mostly off-screen. Saying goodbye: "Downton Abbey' was magic' 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The Great War was over, the Great Depression had not yet started, and life in the United States in 1920 was profoundly different from 50 years earlier. What Was the Greatest Era for American Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Instead of using an alternate history and steampunk setting, as many who examined the leaks believed, Battlefield 1 is drawing from the real-life variety of the Great War. Watch the trailer for Battlefield 1, EA’s new World War I-era shooter 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z “Great War to end Christmas day,” read a New York Times headline; “Ford to stop it.” Crazy diamonds 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The bodies of the unidentified will rest in the same Ypres Extension cemetery next to their comrades but in graves marked only as 'A Soldier of the Great War'. Six British World War I soldiers have been reburied more than 100 years after they fell in a battle on Flanders Fields 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z These days, few squatting in the mire speak French or even notice the sign in a landscape that now resembles the muck of the trenches that lined this region during the Great War. Kurdish migrants mired in a stultifying waiting game on the muddy coast of France 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z As the bombs fell on London during the Great War, two women kept a vigil of the night sky. Watching the heavens: The female pioneers of science - BBC News 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z But his stage career was put on hold with the advent of the Great War. The real-life wars of Dad's Army actor Arnold Ridley - BBC News 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It will be attached to two bronze walls that will be inscribed with quotes about the Great War. Arkansas man chosen to design World War I monument 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z During the Great War, it was described as ‘a birdcage surrounded by roaring lions.’ Dada: 100 Years Later 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z This dates at least to the memorable moment when the Great War began and socialists throughout Europe were sure that transnational class-consciousness would trump nationalist war fever. Why We Remember the Beatles and Forget So Much Else 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z But the Great War - and the world war that followed it, over two decades later - are just one aspect of an attitude to noise and sound that is uniquely Teutonic. How Germany's love of silence led to the first earplug - BBC News 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The region went through a period of economic decline following the Great War in 1914-1918 and the collapse of Wall Street in 1929. Dear Santa letter from 1932 turns up in Belfast archive - BBC News 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z As the former deputy director of the CIA Michael Morell observes in his book “The Great War of Our Time,” the Iraq conflict only confirmed the very message that Osama bin Laden was pushing. The United States is scarier than the Islamic State 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z The Hannah Arendt Center describes a mordant joke “told during the Holocaust, especially amongst Jews in concentration camps”: “The Jews caused the Great War,” an anti-Semite tells his friend. Why the Bicyclists? 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The book, The Great War of Our Time: CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism — From al Qaida to ISIS, warned against the types of attacks that occurred in the Sinai and Paris. Former CIA Director: ISIS Will Strike America 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Visitors come to see exhibits that tell the complex story of the so-called Great War in images, old films, recreated scenes and around 3,000 artifacts, many donated. A World War I Memorial in Kansas City Is a Tribute to Giving 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z A century ago, at the beginning of the Great War, which Pope Benedict XV termed a "pointless slaughter", another notable American was born: the Cistercian monk Thomas Merton. READ: Pope Francis' Address to Joint Session of Congress 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z "In addition to its obvious geo-political importance, Brunanburh was probably one of the largest battles of its age: a generation later chroniclers like Athelweard referred to the event as simply 'the Great War'." Battles of Britain: Vote for which one changed us most - BBC News 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z They are Doughboys, clad in the distinctive steel helmets and leg puttees of the Great War. Who could forget when chemical weapons were tested in D.C.? 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Reading Max, you can sense why Paris, in that last great exhalation of writing before the Great War, remade human consciousness, while London, during the same time, remade only its manners. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z When the Turkish Empire in the region disintegrated - consumed in the desert storms of the Great War - Britain and France were still, just about, major imperial powers. Winds of change blow through Middle East - BBC News 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z The Great War, as it was called then, was described at the time as "the war to end all wars". Why the Indian soldiers of WW1 were forgotten - BBC News 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Producer Marian Bartsch will also attend the U.S. premiere of the documentary The Waler: Australia’s Great War Horse on July 23 at the museum. World War I Museum in Kansas City hosts Australia exhibit 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Theodore Roosevelt Jr. also included Johnson in a book he wrote about soldiers who served in “The Great War.” Medal of Honor recipient’s story finally comes to light 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is a semi-fictionalized account of his work as an ambulance driver for the Italian army during the Great War. Italy Is Bribed into War, 1915 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z According to President Woodrow Wilson, the purpose of American intervention in the Great War then raging in Europe was to “make the world safe for Democracy.” “Oh, you Black Death!”: Henry Johnson fought valiantly in WWI and was hailed as a “race-hero” — until he returned home 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Edward McCrahon, who was born in Brooklyn, started the collection after he joined the French army two years before the US entered the Great War in 1917. Uncle Sam wants you: huge collection of first world war posters up for auction 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Edward H. McCrahon, who was born in Brooklyn, started the collection after he joined the French Army two years before the United States entered the Great War in 1917. Uncle Sam wants you: rare World War One posters up for auction 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Its pilot, wearing a military uniform with medals from the Great War, walked up to the movie star. Uneven ‘Wild Bill Wellman’ revisits director’s fiery life 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z In last month’s “The Great War of Our Time,” Morell, who retired in 2013, defended the harsh interrogations and denounced the committee’s report as “deeply flawed,” and a disservice to the nation. Senate staff disputes ex-CIA official’s defense of torture 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The plaque lists the names of 66 Florence County residents who died in the Great War. Monument being restored, moved to Florence Veterans Park 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The threat posed by Islamic State is one of the many topics covered in The Great War of Our Time , a new book written by Mike Morell, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Gulf nations 'more worried about Iran than IS' - BBC News 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z In "The Great War of Our Time," due to be published Tuesday, former deputy CIA director Michael Morell denounces the committee's 6,770-page report as "deeply flawed," and a disservice to the nation. Lawmaker attacks torture defense by former CIA leader 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The “Great War” raged, killing millions, ravaging nations, impoverishing peoples, and wrecking empires. Ukraine Fight Flares Again: U.S. Should Keep Arms And Troops At Home 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The “Great War” was a thoroughly modern conflict, enshrouded in government lies. Sailing And Sinking The RMS Lusitania: A Century Of Lying America Into War 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Memorial Auditorium, dedicated in 1937 to Stanford’s dead from what was then called The Great War, was full. Silicon Valley Pays Tribute to Dave Goldberg at Memorial Service 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Each was struck in bronze with a figure of Victory on the front and the inscription "The Great War for Civilisation 1914-1919" on the reverse. World War One medal found in Manchester sewer - BBC News 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z A memorial to those who campaigned against the Great War more than a century ago is to be unveiled in Glasgow. Memorial for Glasgow anti-war campaigners to be unveiled - BBC News 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z A century ago one of the most important battles in the Great War began. All Quiet on the Dardanelles: Century Later Brave Gallipoli Dead Remind Us Of The Stupidity Of War 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z In the past few years research has uncovered the stories of a surprising number of Indigenous soldiers who took part in the Great War. World War One's forgotten Anzacs: The Indigenous Army - BBC News 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Clemetson was left off the war memorial in Trinity College Chapel, which features 618 Trinity students killed fighting in the Great War. The officer who refused to lie about being black 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The genocide was the greatest atrocity of the Great War. Turkey’s Century of Denial About an Armenian Genocide 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z In Paraguay, which lost more than half of its population to the conflict, it is also known as the Great War. Vintage photos show Latin America's deadliest war 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z "Propaganda and War: The Allied Front During the First World War" is also one of the rare centennial exhibitions organized by one of the losers of the Great War. Turkish exhibit shows World War One propaganda was part of the everyday 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z A fuller explanation of the Eastern Question can be found in Charles Emmerson’s brilliant book, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War. History Says Tom Cotton And Mark Steyn Shouldn't Be Confident About Intervention In The Middle East 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z We drove to France with Mr Farage to indulge his other great passion - the battlefields of the Great War. Leader profile: 24 hours with Farage 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The German institute that developed poison gases for the Great War also developed an insecticide, Zyklon-A, which in a later form, Zyklon-B, poisoned more than two-thirds of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. A higher form of killing 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z “If they learned one thing in Europe during the Great War, it was how bad America’s roads were,” Smith said. The ‘Broadway of America’ connected the South 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z President Woodrow Wilson threw his country into what was then known as the Great War. “The result … of a political failure”: Historian Adam Tooze on why the lessons of WWI still resonate today 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z We gaze at a table covered with papers and letters from the Great War. Soldier's song continues to resonate 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Ms MacMillan quotes Hilaire Belloc, a jolly British poet: “How I long for the Great War! It will sweep Europe like a broom.” The centenary delusion 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The speech set forth American goals in the Great War. These 11 Speeches from the Last Two Centuries Changed the World 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z “Think about this, the Great War, as World War I was called back then, was only a couple of years gone.” The ‘Broadway of America’ connected the South 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z These names are part of the historical DNA of the 40 nations which were caught up in the whirlwind of the Great War. How France has forgotten the Christmas truce soldiers 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z As the Great War resumed, it wreaked such destruction and devastation that soldiers became hardened to the brutality of the war. Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z At once whimsical and horrifying, Ubisoft’s Valiant Hearts: The Great War–a contemplative sidescrolling adventure–explores gradually interlinked story threads laid across the brutal sweep of the world’s first imperialist implosion. These Are the 15 Best Video Games of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Five days later, Lieutenant Milroy was killed in the Battle of the Somme - one of 31 Scottish rugby internationals who died in the Great War, more than any other nation. Scots rugby stars who died in WW1 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z You’ve all been taught that Imperial Germany started the Great War a century ago. Dangers of poking the bear 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z “Veterans of ‘the Great War’ deserve and will have a war memorial of their own in the nation’s capital without piggybacking on D.C.’s World War I commemoration on the Mall.” World War I memorial included in Defense bill 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Today’s news extends the repurchasing programme to include all of the debt that the UK incurred during the Great War. The UK Government Is Not About To Pay Off All World War One Debt; Don't Be Ridiculous 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z It's the early years of the Great War and they're torn. The Hearts players who went to war 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z “Our goal was to bring history to life by creating an atmosphere and immersive experience that will make visitors feel like they’ve traveled back in time to the Great War,” Mr. Bartkus said. A Community in Connecticut Remembers World War I 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Two years later, a documentary to be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland on Monday - The Man Who Shot the Great War - brings the remarkable story of George Hackney and his photography to life. Unseen WW1 photos uncovered 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Another book, by Captain Amarinder Singh, a prominent Congress politician from the Punjab, comes with the eye of a former army officer – Honour and Fidelity, India’s Military Contribution to the Great War 1914-18. Honoring Its WWI Dead, India Moves On From Its Colonial Past Veterans Day has its origins in the commemoration of the Great War, which ended in the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. After the first Veterans Day 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z But at the outbreak of the Great War there was nothing to suggest that the tens of thousands of boy volunteers were about to join a long, doomed procession. The teenage soldiers of World War One 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z “Over There: Washington and the Great War” is on view through Jan. 18 at the Gunn Memorial Museum, 5 Wykeham Road, Washington. A Community in Connecticut Remembers World War I 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z We remember the Great War publicly, lavishly every year. Why God was not killed by the Great War 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z With her father being a veteran of The Great War, and her schoolteacher’s father having served in the Civil War, there was no shortage of stories - and Nelson absorbed it all. Nelson remembers the WAVES 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z When Depression hit, the two also agreed that it had its origins in the Great War. After the first Veterans Day 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z This photograph was discovered by Hilary Roberts, a curator at the Imperial War Museum, while researching for The Great War, published by Jonathan Cape last year. Amazing Photo Shows the Moment the Guns Fell Silent Before putting the exhibition together, Mr. Bartkus asked some people in town what they knew about the Great War. A Community in Connecticut Remembers World War I 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z During the Great War, however, that historical, moral and theological objection began to crumble under the sheer weight of dead bodies, burned or lost far from home. Why God was not killed by the Great War 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Perhaps unfairly literal, but to Great War soldiers, there was nothing unknown and unfamiliar about no man’s land. Book review: ‘No Man’s Land,’ war and peace post-9/11, by Elizabeth Samet The Great War’s aftermath would play a key role in the Great Depression. After the first Veterans Day 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z While the Great War is not on the minds of many Americans, here it remains profoundly relevant. Tower of London’s stunning poppy installation creates national sensation Scotland, in common with so many other nations, suffered an appalling loss of life in the Great War, and its effects on Scottish life were profound and long-lasting. Scotland marks Remembrance Sunday 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z “Four of America’s sons, fighting with Canadian forces in the Great War, displayed a raw heroism, which earned them this medal,” he said. Princess unveils plaque at Arlington National Cemetery honoring WWI heroes “Images of the Great War” Paintings and drawings from the Anne S.K. Events in the District of Columbia, Nov. 6-12, 2014 Our knowledge of deaf people in the Great War is limited to newspapers, deaf periodicals, military records and photographs. Untold stories of deaf people in WW1 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z It was one of the many tangled Balkan fuses that lit the path to the Great War. The Imagery and Injury of Terrorism 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The Great War, a National Park Service ranger leads a walking tour of the city’s World War I sites and tells why it was called the “Great War.” 2-4 p.m., D.C. community calendar, Oct. 2-9, 2014 Hutcheson was born in Mount Carmel, Ill., in 1883 and attended Northwestern University’s medical school, according to the Web site of the Canadian Military Heritage Project and the Canadian Great War Homepage. Princess unveils plaque at Arlington National Cemetery honoring WWI heroes Millions of soldiers were wounded or killed in the Great War, and it created an especially grim subset of casualties. An American sculptor’s masks restored French soldiers disfigured in World War I This is also roughly the rate that existed as Johnson’s Great War on Poverty ramped up. US Poverty Rate is Still 14.5%; But Yes, The War On Poverty Worked 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Visitors moved through the exhibition rooms at a snail's pace, immersing themselves in the sights and sounds of the Great War. The long shadows of war 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z But as the world commemorates the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, the city did its part on Wednesday. Defaced World War I Memorial in Brooklyn Is Rebuilt 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z "His story reflects the bravery and sacrifice that millions of animals displayed during the Great War," she said. WW1 warhorse awarded bravery medal 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Mr Kneeshaw quoted a Labour MP, William Crawford Anderson, in referring to the famous recruiting poster of the daughter asking her father: "Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?" World War One: Industrial innovation and suspicion 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z And yet, Conan Doyle, not the admirals was proved right by events, says Duncan Redford, author of Submarine - A Cultural History from the Great War to Nuclear Combat. Arthur Conan Doyle's eerie vision of the future of war 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z I unashamedly celebrate what my great uncles and Great Grandfather undertook in the Great War. The long shadows of war 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z What happened 100 years ago in this pastoral corner of Lorraine gets barely a mention in most histories of the Great War. Exploring a World War I Battlefield 100 Years Later 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z In August 1914 the British bombed Dar es Salaam, which was then the capital of German East Africa, and ushered East Africa into the Great War. Kenya's forgotten WW1 heroes 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z It’s quite fashionable to study the sequence of events that led to the so-called “Great War,” which in retrospect appear like dominoes falling as if on a predetermined course. Stop Pretending Nothing Happens in August 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z It will end a weekend of events in the town, which began with the unveiling of a memorial to all Welsh servicemen killed in the Great War on Saturday. Service to end War commemorations 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z IN 1914, troubled by the onset of the Great War, The Economist published a 176-page special edition on what it called a great “achievement of Peace”: the opening of the Panama Canal. Now for the next 100 years 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z "Television programmes have used the poster in advertising campaigns to immediately establish that the show is set at the time of the Great War." The most famous pointing finger 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Britain’s commemoration of the Great War has lost all sense of proportion. 1914: the Great War has become a nightly pornography of violence 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The Great War, he warned, "taught us a terrible lesson. Let us show … that we have truly learned it." Enemies in life, comrades in death: a century to count the cost of war 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z They went on to suffer heavy losses at the Great War, with more than 1,400 making the ultimate sacrifice. Pompey in World War One kit tribute 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z A bird pooped on his soldier as he spoke about the sacrifice made by Russian soldiers in WWI, linking the Great War to his own current political troubles. WATCH: Bird Successfully Launches Airstrike on Putin's Shoulder 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Gwent Police will pay tribute to 14 officers of the old Monmouthshire and Newport forces who died in the Great War. Events mark WWI outbreak centenary 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z I cannot walk down the street or turn on the television without being bombarded by Great War diaries, poems, scrapbooks and songs. 1914: the Great War has become a nightly pornography of violence 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Edinburgh's commemorations include the opening of a new exhibition called Remembering the Great War at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. World War One centenary commemorated 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z "We need to remember what all of these men and women were doing during the Great War across the region." Pompey in World War One kit tribute 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z In the museum there is a regimental drum sitting above a Maxim gun - whose withering fire would claim so many lives in the Great War. WW1: From the trenches to Versailles 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z But virtually all our concerns about such tactics find their roots in the Great War, particularly in its first hours, when the Alert’s hatchet-wielding crew began its work. Happy 100th birthday, information warfare There is the Great War and the Commonwealth, the Great War and feminism, Great War fashion shows and souvenirs. 1914: the Great War has become a nightly pornography of violence 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z They will lay the foundation stone for a Great War memorial and exhibition centre on the site, which is due to open its doors to the public in 2017. French and German leaders mark WW1 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z |
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