I found this video very good, unfortunately it was removed from youtube and it can't be uploaded again because some music copyright.

I would like to share here direct from my drive if no problems. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q2q33Gz3Lqx2RI5pFt7M-WcGuD0zyFoD/view?usp=drivesdk

I was reading alot of world war 1 poets, wilfred owen, siefried sasoon, rupert brooke. While just looking through the wikipedia of rupert brooke I saw that in july 1917 when general Allemby got the news of his sons death he broke down in public and started crying and recited rupert brookes poem. Although i have read this accound elsewhere i have not been able to pin point which poem did he recite, if anyone knows it would help me a great deal.

I keep hearing about how Germany was unfairly blamed for the war and how Versailles helped radiclalize Germany.

Is this a fair assumption? While all powers in the war had their share of hood and bad, Germany far and away seems like the aggressor in the war, at least according to the “ Guns of august” by Barbara Tuchman.

She describes world war 1 as at some level just the sequel to the Franco Prussian war of 1870.

That war was totally started by Bismarck only for the sake of German prestige and knocking France out as the principal power of Europe, and getting Alsace Lorraine as a prize.

Germany was in some levels not too different from the Reich of ww2. They wanted worldwide and continental supremacy, and were willing to crush France and settle vast areas of eastern Europe to do that. They committed huge atrocities in Belgium which propaganda just barely exaggerated, and due to overzealous desire for a Baghdad to Berlin railway were happy to ignore or facilitate the Armenian genocide.

It hardly could have been a good outcome for the world if Germany won that war, and perhaps maybe it was good to stop them?

What do you think?

Hey guys, I am currently writing my scientific work related to German perception of the Russian enemy in propaganda during WWI. Any sort of sources would be deeply appreciated:

• scientific articles
• visual arts
• satirical magazines
• documents
• literature
• diaries

Any recommendations would be also greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi all, I just finished Chevrons by Leonard Smith, and wow! Such a great story, and historically accurate (apparently?). Between Chevrons and Fear by Gabrielle Chevallier, I am now totally hooked on WWI.

Any book recommendations for more WWI fiction? I am due to read the more famous works such as All Quiet on the Western Front, but I'm looking for some lesser-known stuff. Chevrons, for example, was hard to come by and there isn't much about it online.

Anyways, figure I'd ask some WWI buffs.

Thank you in advance!

Just imagine living in trenches for months, enduring unimaginable hardships: disease, rats, the constant barrage of artillery and the deafening sound of machine guns. At any moment, poison gas could fill your lungs, and flamethrowers might turn you into a human torch.

The environment was hellish, bloody, and brutal, with little to no hope of survival. You could spend months enduring this nightmare, only to be randomly killed by artillery or machine-gun fire in seconds after leaving the trenches during a bayonet suicidal assault.

While WWII was horrific, the slaughterhouse that was the WWI battlefield like Verdun stands unmatched in its sheer brutality, especially for the average soldier.

Check out this amazing event: https://www.flickr.com/photos/canyouplaythebalalaika/albums/72177720316450190/

Check out these photos and videos from The Lochnagar Crater, The Thiepval Memorial, and The Ulster Tower: https://www.flickr.com/photos/canyouplaythebalalaika/albums/72177720318393176/

I was listening to the podcast "Not so quiet on the western front" episode 6 , and they mentioned that the German army had rated different regiments of the allies, from good to poor. Does anyone know if there is a document for this? , I'd like to see the full ratings.

I'm not sure this is the type of question to ask in this sub, but I'm a loss on how to find out.

As you may have imagined the schoolyard snickers are un-ending, when searching this name. This letter is part of a great story but I don’t have the search prowess to complete it (I also can’t stop snickering). The letter isn’t signed, and seems a copy as there is no other identifying marks. I can tell you that the conclusion makes it legitimate. PP may not be a soldier, he could be an administrator, or government aid as this soldier’s relative may have been from a known family to the crown. I can tell you that the Soldier was JC Shillington, a member of the 8th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.

I can't think of what it could be :/

Thought my display would be appreciated here

Hi everyone, I wanted to ask if anyone knows how can I have information about my great grandfather and the route he made during the Great War. My uncle has a sort of booklet that has written in it the battles that the other great grandfather took part of, but we have nothing about the other one. If you know if there's a place in Italy where this can be found out, I'll thank you very much.