World War One 1914-1918: The
War to End All Wars. Illus.
Cowsill, Alan. World War One 1914-1918: The War to End All Wars
Pax Britannia ended in 1914, with the
War to End All Wars, at least until the next one, and Europe, with trenches and artillery, was laid waste.
You may miss Pax Americana
Now as we approach August 2014, 100 years from the beginning of the "
war to end all wars", we should recall that the British belief was that it would all be over by the first Christmas.
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Peter Simkins, Geoffrey Jukes and Michael Hickey's THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE
WAR TO END ALL WARS (9781782002802, $30.00) provides a detailed, in-depth history covering the basics of the First World War, with a focus on how its techniques and radical strategies changed the face of warfare.
Osprey Publishing
A skilled historian answers key questions about military strategy during the "
war to end all wars."
The Great War
Machinations during these last hours of that
war to end all wars throw these combatants together in the fundamental battle to survive.
Dowswell, Paul: Eleven Eleven
The Great War, for example, which was used to describe World War I, fell out of use around 1939 when people realized it wasn't actually the
war to end all wars.
Mapping life and death of words: analysis identifies lexical victims of shifting influences
Kassirer manages her prose in such a way that an ornate, fruit-shaped drawer pull and the
war to end all wars seem meant to share a paragraph, as if an author couldn't possibly mention one without the other.
Norma Kassirer. Katzenjammered
Born in Missouri in 1901 and raised in Oklahoma, Buckles visited a string of military recruiters after the United States entered the "
war to end all wars", in April, 1917.
Frank Buckles; obituary
"The
War to End All Wars: World War I," is organized into 15 neatly-delineated chapters, beginning with the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie.
Karyn's bookshelf
But The
War to End All Wars does a fine job of telling this military story from 1914-1918.
The War to End All Wars: The Story of World War I
The recreated trench warfare workshops act as a stark reminder of the squalor encountered by troops during the
war to end all wars. The Royal Engineers lost 25,000 men.
Lee Hibbert discovers the military and human stories in the story of the Royal Engineers
Oxford University English Faculty researchers are putting together the archive, to be launched on November 11, 90 years after the guns fell silent as the "
war to end all wars" drew to a close.
Do you have any First World War memorabilia?
We know the Marines at a place called Belleau Wood in the "
War to end all Wars" placed blistering long-range .30-06 rifle fire on German infantry the likes of which the Germans had never seen--and never forgot.
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The Histories describe the world from its beginnings as a concept rather than merely a physical entity up to that
war to end all wars, the Persian of the early fifth century BCE.
The Cambridge companion to Herodotus