Marele Război - The Great War - La Grande Guerre - La Grande Guerra - Великая Bойна - Der Große Krieg - Голямата Bойна - A Nagy Háború - Büyük Savaşi

La 100 de ani de la începutul Marelui Război, este utilă această documentare. The Great War in a Different Light, versiunea arhivată (cea originală nu mai apare online).

Articole despre România ("Rumania"): The Fall of Bukarest as Seen by a British Journalist,  Memories of Rumania, Destroying the Oil-Wells in Rumania, Our New Ally Rumania, German Cavalry Attacks in the Dobrudscha, The Rumanian Soldier as I Know Him, La Guerre du Droit.
 
Pagina principală este în limba engleză. Texte în limbile: franceză / germană / spaniolă / olandeză / italiană.

Introduction

Wars are primarily about fighting and killing, but it would be a great oversimplification to state that that is all they are about. Quarrels between nations and groups of people do indeed produce misery and suffering for all those willingly or unwillingly involved, but thankfully there is much more to study and learn about the great conflicts of our time than merely the violence and destruction they caused.

Wars can set about vast changes in society, be switching points in history, can be begetters of social movements and the origin of future problems. They are also prime movers in bringing about innovation and new and different ways of doing things and of organizing society.
 
When looked at in that light, the Great War of 1914-1918 can justly be considered to be the pivotal event of the 20th century. Essentially, both the conflicts that lay at the origin of the Great War as well as the newly created enmities resulting from the Great War remained unresolved and led to a continuation of the great struggle of nations some 20 years later. Bolshevist Revolution and Cold War, Fascism and the creation of new nations and Nationalisms, all these are unintended consequences of the War of 1914-1918. Many of these problems are still with us to this day, the break-up of former Yugoslavia into ethnic divisions being but one glaring example.

On the other hand, the war set in motion social changes that would otherwise have taken much longer to manifest themselves and gain wide-spread acceptance. The idea of equality between the sexes, to give one obvious example, was given an unintended boost by the necessary wide-spread integration of females into the general work force. This in turn engendered changes in social and sexual mores, customs and socially accepted behavior.

It is worth taking a look at the Great War behind the scenes, at the everyday life of the combatants and the home front. It is interesting to read news articles and books that people of that period read, to look at the photos and illustrations that appeared in the media. Quite often they give an amazingly fresh view of the Great War, for our view has been imprinted on us by schooling, present-day history books and novels, present-day movies and television shows.

To try and get a glimpse of what people during the years of the Great War read and saw, I will try to mainly use period material on this website : news articles from magazines and excerpts from period history books. An amazing number of weekly periodicals dealing with the Great War was published in Great Britain, France, Germany and Belgium. They were often intended to be bound in volumes and kept as valued books. A wealth of material can be found in such sources, both written and photographic as well as illustrated. In fact, though now it seems to be largely forgotten or ignored, a large portion of news magazines at the time, was filled with hand-drawn illustrations. Since photographs of newsworthy subjects were not always readily available, especially scenes of actual combat and fighting, news editors resorted to the simple expedient of commissioning illustrations. This was a wide-spread practice, especially in the early days of the war. When applicable, I will try and use such forgotten illustrations.

Apart from a few exceptions, I will try to limit sections on the great battles and actual warfare. There are many other excellent sites covering this aspect of the Great War. Instead, here you will find the somewhat more unusual, the personal, the artistic, the comical and the odd type of subject-matter, hopefully displayed from a different angle.

It has been a while since this website was first started and as so often happens, things evolve differently than planned. For a variety of reasons a large part is now devoted to showing examples of the somewhat forgotten graphic art that was so abundantly produced during the Great War. Illustrations and drawings, by both famous, less famous, professional and amateur artists were not only made for personal gratification, but were also published extensively in the media. This type of art, representational and realistic, has not been appreciated overly much this past century. Nonetheless it was very representative of the popular style and taste at the time and helped shape and mould people's perceptions about events and things they could not experience or see firsthand themselves. Illustrating as a news-form, was still in competition with the use of photographs, and because of the dangerous nature of battlefields and warfare, was still a preferred and much used medium to impart images of warfare to a news hungry public. Present day history books, television and movies by their very nature, are inclined to use photographs as illustrative material. But by relying heavily and almost exclusively on the photographic record, we are apt to overlook part of the specific feel of the time of the Great War.

And that is one of the intents of this website. To try just somewhat to show what people read and saw during those long gone days of 1914 - 1918. We now have the perspective of history to look back from and make weighty and no doubt correct judgments and statements about the Great War, But people at the time experienced it differently. We may think they were misinformed and deluded, and perhaps they were, or maybe we have become incredibly cynical and mistrusting. What were once considered to be civic virtues are now thought to be quaint anachronisms at best or grand delusions at worst. Things change.

So even if what you see and read here appears at times to be heroically naive and unbelievably patriotic, touchingly romantic, and yet callous, cruel, insensitive or downright silly as well as horribly politically incorrect, remember that it is colored by the passage of time and should be appreciated accordingly.

'And always in my ears was the deep rumble of the guns, those great booming thunder blows, speaking from afar and with awful significance of the great battle, which seemed to be deciding the destiny of our civilization and the new life of nations which was to come perhaps out of all this death.'

from 'The Soul of the War' (1915) by journalist Philip Gibbs describing the Battle of the Marne

 Brave Little Belgium

The Siege of Antwerp : August-October 1914 (with extensive text and illustration galleries)

The Siege of Antwerp in Newsmagazines

Fortresses a Falling : Liége, Namur, Dinant

Iron Curtains of the First Kind : the Electrified Wire of Death

Aan den Grensdraad - Smokkelaarsleven in Lokeren (Dutch/Flemish text)

Armoured Cars on the Eastern Front : the Belgian Expeditionary Force in Russia

From Kieff to Vladivostok

A Visit to the Haelen Battlefield

Brave Little Belgium : Around the War in 80 Postcards

August 1914 in Brussels : Mobilization and Occupation

'Types' of Soldiers : a Humorous View

Belgian Prisoners in Germany

Belgian Prisoners in Germany 2

The Soldier King

Visit to King Albert in Furnes

King Albert's Men

Belgium Set Free : 1918

War Scenes in Belgium

The New Brave Belgian Army

Marching Through Belgium

Frederick Palmer in Brussels 1914

Burgomaster Adolphe Max of Brussels

Kidnapping General Leman

A Visit to Ypres

Ypres - the Unique City

Ypres Après l'Incendie (French language text)

Ypres-la-Silencieuse (French language text)

A British Reporter Visits Ypres in 1915

Louvain - from a Diplomatic Diary

The Burning of Louvain

Louvain the Forsaken

In Aerschot and Louvain

Les Allemands en Belgique (by L. H. Grondijs - French text)

The Rag-Doll of Europe - In Dinant

The Story of Liege, from Personal Investigation

Het Gemartelde Andenne, Aerschot en Leuven (by Henri Davignon) (Dutch/Flemish text)

Le Crime des Allemands à Aerschot - 1914 (French language text)

La Mort de Louvain

Les Allemands à Louvain

Belgian Newsmagazines and Periodicals during the War

'La Belgique Heroique et Martyre' : Atrocities Illustrated

'La Belgique Heroique et Martyre' : the Belgian Army in Combat

'l'Heroique Belgique : Photos from 1914

Heroic Belgium Illustrated in French Magazines

Belgium in War-Time - Atrocities Described

Atrocity Postcards

Belgian Victory Prints 1919

James Thiriar : Artist with the Belgian Army

James Thiriar : Story of the War

James Thiriar : The Yser Front

André Leynen : Artist with the Belgian Army

Joe English : First Aid Drawings

Alfred Bastien : Working for the British Press

Panorama de l'Yser : a 1920's Multimedia Presentation

An American Female Reporter on the Yser Front

An American Journalist on the Yser Front 1917

The Germans are Coming

The Germans in Belgium

War Reporters in Belgium

American Journalist Marching with the German Army in 1914

An American Journalist Visits Fort Loncin

A Visit to a Belgian Relief Station

Filming Street-Fighting in Alost, September 1914

An American Journalist in Belgium, 1914

An American Journalist in Germany and Occupied Belgium

An American Social Worker's Views on Belgium in 1916

The Wreckage of Termonde and Melle

From Antwerp to the Yser Front

A Diplomatic Diary - by Hugh Gibson of the American Legation

The True Capital of Belgium

Would Belgium Accept a German Peace?

An Australian Lady Reporter in Occupied Brussels (by Louise Mack)

A Woman's Experiences in the Great War (by Louise Mack)

A British Reporter at Furnes

A British Reporter on the Yser Front with a Volunteer Hospital in 1914-15

The British Field Hospital in Furnes

The Terrible Battle of Nieuport

British Soldiers Trapped in Belgium

The Cellar House at Pervijse / Cellar House at Pervijse Book

A British Reporter Visits Ypres in 1915

A Nurse with the British Field Hospital

A Woman in Battle : a British Lady Reporter at the Siege of Antwerp

British Nurses in Belgium, August 1914

De Belgen in Holland (Dutch language text)

The German Fury in Belgium

British Naval Brigade Interned in the Netherlands

An Eyewitness to War
True personal accounts and memoires written during or immediately after the Great War.
Soldiers and civilians tell a tale in their own words.

Tales of War

Under Fire in the Front Lines

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The First Gas Attack : an Eyewitness Account

The First Gas-Attack - More Eyewitness Accounts

Discussing the Use of Poison Gas

Poison Gas

A Pied Piper on the Western Front : Memoires of a British Rat Officer (a comedy relief recommendation)

Great Escapes of the Great War : Personal Accounts - Including Roland Garros in Captivity

Charging a Trench

A First Visit to the Trenches

Stationed in No-Man's Land

With the British Cavalry in Battle

Winter in the West 1915

Who Fired the First Shot ?

Going on a Night Raid / Midnight Trench Raids

A German Soldier's Story

An American Volunteer in the Canadian Army

A French Soldier's Story

Extracts from Soldier's Letters

The Pluck of a Coward

Alan Seeger - American Poet in the Foreign Legion

Blowing up the Bridges

On the British Battle-Line in 1915

French Cavalry in a Mine Crater

Debout les Morts!

What I Learned on the Western Front

Tales of the French Dragoons

Kitchener's Mob - an American Volunteer in the British Army

Tales of the First BEF in 1914

Letters from American Soldiers

An American Volunteer Poilu

A Night Affair on the Western Front

The Assembly Trench

The Glory of the Trenches

War is Declared : Views in London, France, Petersburg and Asia

 

Reporters at the Front

Everybody's Got a Story to Tell

About Reporters  .

Donald Thompson : a War Photographer and Cinematographer from Kansas

E. Alexander Powell - American Reporter and Adventure Writer

Hamilton Fyfe : Editor and War-Reporter

Frederic Villiers : an Old Campaigner Goes to War for the Last Time

Philip Gibbs : Five Years on the Western Front

Ludovic H. Grondijs : Dutch Academic and Adventurer Journalist (French language texts)

A Reporter on War-Reporters

Reporters and Photographers with the British Armies

An American Reporter with the Austro-Hungarian Press Service

Richard Harding Davis on War Reporters

War Reporters on the British Front

War Reporters in Belgium

Correspondents in the Great War

Frederick Palmer : an American Reporter on the Western Front

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Their Stories

Filming the War

A British Reporter with the Caucasian Cavalry

An American Journalist Visits German Trenches part 1

An American Journalist Visits German Trenches part 2

An American Journalist Visits French Trenches in 1915 part 1

An American Journalist Visits French Trenches in 1915 part 2

An American Novelist Visits British Trenches in 1915

The Beginning and the End as Seen by an English Reporter

Fête de la Victoire - Julliet 1919 (French language texts)

General Pershing Arrives in France - 4th of July in Paris

A British Reporter Runs the Gauntet

Unauthorized Visit to the Front

America Goes to War

The Soldier in Battle

The Story of the Zouave

Summer and Winter in British Trenches

Court-Martialed as a Spy by the French

German Wounded in France and Belgium

A British Reporter in Berlin, August 1914

Filming Street-Fighting in Alost, September 1914

Censors and Reporters (by Hamilton Fyfe)

How Paris Gets the News

A Spanish Reporter in French Front-line Trenches

Mr. Rudyard Kipling on the War in France

What I Learned on the Western Front - 1917

Jimmy Hare's First War Impressions

The First Day of the First American Battle

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On the Plains of Northern France

Guarding the Approaches to Paris - Champagne, the Somme, Picardy, Reims

An American Reporter Visits the Forts at Maubeuge

The German Trenches at Rheims

Fighting at Festubert 1915

On the French Front in 1915

An American Journalist on the French Front in 1916

A Bayonet Charge in Picardy

From the Aisne to la Bassée

Notre-Dame de Lorette

Sacred Ruin and Hill Sinister

Fighting for the Labyrinth - la Bassée and Carency

The Triumph of Young France at Carency

Visiting the German Trenches at la Bassée

Notre Dame de La Lorette - by a Finnish Volunteer in the German Army

Everyday Life in Occupied Areas - by a Finnish Volunteer in the German Army

Amiens and the Devastated Regions of France

The Great Battle of Arras in 1917

Flamethrowers in Action on Poziere Ridge

The Canadians Fight for Vimy Ridge

The Battlefield at Cambrai

British Advance at Saint Quentin

The Great March Offensive of 1918

What I Learned on the Western Front

Footprints of the Hun

Fighting on the Aisne in 1914

A British Reporter Visits Vermelles

The Memorable Capture of Loos

Under Fire at Loos

Highlanders at Loos

'Neath Verdun - Fighting on the Eastern Marches 1914

The Great Swathe of the Lines

The Thin Brown Line at Noyons

Devastation and Some Emotions

Attack at Dawn

The Munsters in the March Retreat

Drum-Fire of 2,000 British Guns

A Scene from the German Retreat

The Epic Battles for the Hills

Back to Mons in 1918

Mons - 4 Years After

The Liberation of Lille and Valenciennes

A British Reporter Sneaks into Rheims

The Ruins of Rheims and Arras

An American Journalist Visits Rheims

The Bombardment of Rheims

A Spanish Journalist in Rheims

Rheims in 1916

A British Writer Visits Rheims - 1916

The Ghost of a Cathedral

La Destruction de Reims Racontée par un Témoin (French text)

Récit d'un Témoin du Bombardement de la Cathédrale de Reims (French text)

An American Reporter at Neuve Chapelle in 1915

The British Attack at Neuve Chapelle 1915

In the Firing-Line at Neuve Chapelle

The French Defence in Champagne

Fighting in Champagne

How the French Broke the Germans in Champagne

Fighting on the Somme

Winter Quarters on the Somme

A British Reporter Describes the First Day of the Somme

The German Side of the Somme

An American Reporter on the Somme

A Canadian Reporter Visits the Somme

A British Writer Visits the French Front on the Somme -1916

           A British Reporter in Holland

Forgotten Fronts in France

'Ils n'auront ni l'Alsace ni la Lorraine!'

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An American Reporter visits the Russian Contingent in France

An American Lady Visits the Argonne Front in 1915 - by Edith Wharton

An American Journalist on the Alsace Front

Fighting in the Forests of the Argonne

A Quiet Day in the Argonne - 1916

In the Forests of Lorraine

Winter in Lorraine with an American Journalist

In the Bois-le-Pretre

A Spanish Journalist Visits Chalons, Lorraine, Verdun and the Argonne

A Spanish Journalist at Pont-a-Mousson

The Battefield of Nancy and the Fort du Troyon

The Iron Hand in Alsace-Lorraine

A Crusader of France - Memoirs of a Chasseur Alpin

How the French were Trapped on the Plateau near Metz

In Flanders Fields

Battles in the Ypres Salient  

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The Hell of Passchendale

In the Trenches / Hill 60

On the Ypres Salient

The First Battle of Ypres 1914

The Incomparable Defence of Ypres

The Extraordinary Battle for Hill 60

The Second Battle of Ypres

French Marine Fuseliers at Dixmude

Fighting in the Ypres Salient in 1914

The Road to Calais

The Flanders Battlefields

An American Lady Visits the Northern Fronts - by Edith Wharton

A Visit to the Trenches- Text by Fortunino Matania

British Reporter Spotted by a German Gunner

The Victory at Messines Ridge

A British Reporter Visits Ypres in 1915

Pen Picture of the "Batter"-Field of Ypres

The Inspiring Battle of Hooge

The Miracle of the Marne and the Hell of Verdun

'On Ne Passera Pas'  

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The Winning of the Marne

Wanderings of a British Reporter in France in August and September 1914

After the Marne - an American Journalist's Story

After the Marne - Another American Journalist's Story

Paris and the Marne

A Hilltop on the Marne - by Mildred Aldrich

Visiting the Marne Battlefields in December 1914 - by Mildred Aldrich

Paris Waits 1914

From Mons to the Marne

The Toy Drum of St. Quentin

Paris War Days - Diary of an American

Among the Ruins - by a Spanish Correspondent

The Battles of the Marne, the Aisne and the Eastern Marches

An American Reporter on the Marne Battlefields

An American Reporter on the Mons Battlefields

Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien at Mons, the Marne and the Aisne

The Three Days Battle of Mons - the Retreat from Mons

The Background of a Victory

An Anniversary of the Marne - 1916

Advance of the 2nd Division at the Marne

The First Historic Battle of the Rivers - Marne and Ourq

How the Little British Army Crossed the Aisne

The Battle of Verdun (special feature with extensive photo galleries)

The White Road to Verdun

French Colonials Take Douaumont

Fighting 'Neath Verdun

My Trip to Verdun - Face to Face with Pétain

An American Journalist at Verdun in 1917

An American Ambulance Driver at Verdun 1916

Winston Churchill's View on Verdun

France Triumphant at Verdun

A Canadian Reporter Visits Verdun

The Defence of Fort Vaux 

Christmas during the War

the Yuletide Season under Fire

 

Christmas 1914 in the Trenches

Christmas 1914 in the Trenches 2

Christmas 1914

Christmas 1915

A Reporter's Three War Christmasses

A Reporter's Four War Christmasses

Christmas Illustrations in the Trenches

The War Bells of Christmas by Philip Gibbs

Christmas in the Trenches by Ignatius Phayre 

Armistice and Afterwards

War is over, but not really  

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War is Over

The Beginning and the End as seen by Philip Gibbs

The German Retreat from Belgium

A Possible Front in 1919

France on the Rhine

The March to the Rhine

Bulgaria Surrenders

If Germany Had Won the War

A British Reporter on Versailles by Hamilton Fyfe

Shall We Hang the Kaiser ?  .  

Women at War and Helping Hands, Medical and Red Cross

Nurses, Civilians and Great War NGO's 

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Emilienne Moreau - the Lady of Loos : a Civilian Heroine / Mes Memoires (French Text)

The Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell

British Nurses in Belgium in August 1914

British Female Spy Plans Assasination of the Kaiser : A Journey to Brussels

A Nurse at the Front in Belgium and France

The Cellar House at Pervijse

Soeur Julie of Gerbevillier

A Nurse with the British Field Hospital

A British Nurse in Ostend and Antwerp

British Nurse in Russia

Touring the Trenches - a Woman's View

An American Lady Visits the Argonne Front in 1915 - by Edith Wharton

An American Lady Visits the Northern Fronts - by Edith Wharton

A Hilltop on the Marne - by Mildred Aldrich

Visiting the Marne Battlefields in December 1914 - by Mildred Aldrich

Women Under Fire - Observations

How War Seems to a Woman - by an American Ambulance Driver

Women Warriors of Death - Russian Volunteers

A Nurse at the War in 1914

Women in the World War

The Manless Homes of England

Godmothers to the Trenches

The American Ambulance Hospital in Paris

The American Ambulance Field Service in the Vosges and Verdun

Wounded in Mesopotamia

On a British Hospital Train

Memoires of a British Hospital-Orderly

An American Charity in France

Ambulance No. 10

In a Paris Hospital in 1915

A Visit to a Belgian Relief Station

A Scots Minstrel Visits Vimy Ridge

German Wounded Brought Home from the Somme

British Hospital in Macedonia

American Red Cross Doctor on the Eastern Front

British Nurses in Belgium, August 1914

Glimpses of V.A.D. Work

Fanny Goes to War

Captain Sawbones, R.A.M.C.

Shell Shock

English Canteens in France

 

Prisoners of War and Internees

Locked Up for the Duration .

Great Escapes of the Great War

German Prisoners in Britain

British Prisoners in German Camps

Belgian Prisoners in Germany

Prisoners of War in Germany

German Prisoners Behind the Front-Lines

Visiting Two German Prisoner-of-War Camps

Tommy in Germany

German Prisoners in French Hands  

Publishing and the Media

British Newsmagazines and Periodicals

French and Swiss Newsmagazines and Periodicals

Belgian Newsmagazines and Periodicals

German and Austrian Newsmagazines and Periodicals

American, Russian and Italian Newsmagazines and Periodicals

Children's Books of the Great War 1

Children's Books of the Great War 2

Children's Books of the Great War 3

French Children's Books

'les Livres Roses pour la Jeunesse de Larousse'

Advertisements : Anything to Make a Franc

French Children at War : the Glorification of Adolescent Soldiers

War Time Photography Contest

Marshall Joffre : 14 Illustrations by Guy Arnoux

'Fragments from France' : Great War Humor by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather

French and German Popular War-Time Almanachs

Magazines in the Front Lines .

 Magazine Covers and Illustrations

'The War Illustrated' : A Collection of Newsmagazine Covers

'The War Pictorial' : A Collection of Covers

Off to War with 'Newnes Illustrated Magazine'

'The Illustrated War News' : A Collection of Newsmagazine Covers

Christmas Illustrations in the Trenches

'La Collection Patrie' : A Collection of Colorful Patriotic 'Penny' Novel Covers

'Les Veillées des Chaumieres' : Pulp Fiction

'La Semaine de Suzette' : War Stories in Children's Weeklies

'La Collection Patrie' : A Second Collection of Colorful Patriotic 'Penny' Novel Covers

'La Guerre Documentée' : A Collection of Magazine Covers in Oil Paint

'L'Illustration' : a Collection of Covers from a Prestigious French Newsmagazine

'La Baionnette' : a Soldier's Magazine of Distinction

Charging Across No-Man's Land : Cavalry in Action

Les 'Images d'Epinal' : Popular Imagery

'Le Rire Rouge' : a French Humor Magazine Goes to War

Double Page Illustrations from 'Panorama de la Guerre'

'Der Krieg 1914-15 : Color Illustrations from a German Newsmagazine

'Illustrirte Zeitung : A Collection of Prints Sold for War-Time Charities

Trench Scenes from the German Lines .

Eastern Approaches

Far-Away Foreign Fronts. After all, it is a World War.

On Russian Fronts

 

Austria-Hungary Goes to War

The Two Sieges of Przemysl

 

1914

An American Journalist in East Prussia, 1914

The Great Russian Raid into East Prussia

At Tannenberg

The Truth About Tannenberg - a British View

Prasnysch and the Battles of the Masurian Lakes

On the Warsaw Front 1914

As Warsaw Sees the War

 

1915

The German-Austrian Summer Offensive in Galicia, 1915

Winter in the Carpathians in 1915

On the Trans-Siberian Railroad in 1915

The First Historic Battle of the Polish Rivers

The Tremendous Battles of the Vistula

The Fall of Warsaw (by Stanley Washburn)

The Fall of Warsaw (from a British magazine)

Von Mackensen and the Lunge for Warsaw

The Breaking of the Russian Fortress Line

An American Journalist on the Eastern Front in 1915

The Tsar in His Office

Victory at Lemberg

A Visit to the Russian Trenches

A Sketch Behind a Russian Battery

Four Weeks in the Trenches in Galicia

A Religious Service on the Field of Battle

A Night Attack in a Snow-Storm

 

1916

A British Reporter with the Caucasian Cavalry

The Summer Offensive of 1916

The Russian Drive into Galicia under Brussiloff

The Onslaught in Galicia

An American Reporter Behind the Russian Front (by John Reed)

An Adventurous Journey to Russia - by Hamilton Fyfe

What I Saw in Poland

A Week with the Russian Army

Russia Organizing for Victory

 

1917

Russia After the Revolution by Hamilton Fyfe

From Kieff to Vladivostok

An Inside View of Russia in War Time

Russian Retirement and Its Sequel in 1917

The Events of the Russian Revolution

Caucasus Front

 . Russia's Hammer Stroke at Erzerum

The Fall of Erzerum

The Advance on Erzerum

A British Reporter with the Caucasian Cavalry

British Armored Cars in the Caucasus

The Train de Bargigli

British Nurse in Russia

American Red Cross Doctor on the Eastern Front

An American Journalist Visits Austro-Hungarian Hospitals

An American Journalist on the Galician Front

Hunting Cossacks with the Austrian Cavalry

Fighting with the Russian Army

The Russian Advance

Four Days Under Russian Fire

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The Far East and Africa

The Siege of Tsing-Tao (new material added) 

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The Defence of India

Driving the Germans from South-West Africa

Our Escape from German South-West Africa

In the African Bush

The Voyage of the 'Emden' - from the Seven Seas to the Arabian Desert

The Career of the "Emden

How Captain J. C. T. Glossop, Destroyed the German Cruiser "Emden"

How Botha Saved the Union in South Africa

General Botha's Victorious Campaign

Britain's Conquest of the German Cameroon  

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Fighting Johnny Turk in the Ottoman Empire

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Conquering the Hellespont : the Allies on the Dardanelles

Constantinople

An Americain Journalist with the Turks at Gallipoli

The Campaign in Mesopotamia to the Fall of Kut

The First Battle of Kut

Highlanders in Mesopotamia

Wounded on Chocolate Hill

Watering the Regiment in Mesopotamia

River Warfare in Mesopotamia

Wounded in Mesopotamia

With the French Foreign Legion in Gallipoli

Trenching at Gallipoli

A Diary from the Dardanelles

Capturing Jerusalem and Palestine

What Really Happened at Kut ?

The Turks Attack the Suez Canal

The Senussi

Outwitting the Turks

The Memorable Desert Battle for Egypt

The Fight for the Garden of Eden

In the Balkans

 

The Fall of Bukarest as Seen by a British Journalist (by British journalist Hamilton Fyfe)

Memories of Rumania (by British journalist Hamilton Fyfe)

Destroying the Oil-Wells in Rumania

Our New Ally Rumania

British Medical Officer in Serbia

An American Women in Serbia

Serbia in its Darkest Hour

Bulgaria Surrenders

British Hospital in Macedonia

An American Journalist in Serbia (by John Reed)

Fighting for Serbia

The Tragic Glory of Serbia's Last Stand

The Resurrection of the Immortal Serb

A Serbian Supper-Party

Atrocties in Serbia

German Cavalry Attacks in the Dobrudscha

In the Alpine Snows

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Battle in the Snow

An American Journalist on the Italian Front

American Aid to Italy

On the Alpine Peaks with the Italians

Campaigns Above the Snow Line

The Garibaldi Fight Again for Freedom

Blowing Up the Castelletto

Wonders of the Teleferica

How I Saw the Fighting for Gorizia  . 

The War in Color

Color Photos of the French Military

(more than 80 pre-war photographs in color)

The Battle of the Marne in Orignal Color Photos

(color photos from a war-time serial publication)

The Battle of Verdun in Original Color Photos

(color photos from a war-time publication)

 

Machines of War

In the air, on land and at sea

Conflict in the Clouds

The Flying Fighting-men

Spotting in an Observation Balloon

An American Journalist in a German Observation Balloon

Duel in the Clouds

Anti-Aircraft Fire in 1915

Triumph of the Aeropane in Warfare

A Zeppelin Joy-Ride

A Tale of the Canadian Flying Corps

An Airman's Adventures - by 'Nighthawk'

The Lafayette Escadrlle

The Death of von Richthofen

'Zepp's' over London

Sharks of the Air - Zeppelins over Britain

The Passing of a Zeppelin

Knights of the Air — Frenchmen Who Defy Death

A Bombing Expedition with the British Air Service

Tanks in Action : a Series of Illustrations from 'La Guerre Documentée'

My Adventures in a Tank

With the Tanks

Description of a Tank Battle

The Coming of the Tanks

Triumph of the Tanks at Cambrai

The Only Way at Cambrai

Tales of the Tanks

A Tank and Two Crosses

Cruising in a Tank

A True Story of the Tanks

Tommy in a Tank: a Comedy of Terrors

The Goliath Gun : the Austrian 42 cm Mobile Siege Howitzer

Mademoiselle 'Soixante-Quinze' - The French 75 mm Artillery Piece

The "75" - Marvel of Modern Quick-Firers

French Heavy Artillery Illustrations

The Insatiable Hunger of the Guns

A Great War Cruise Missile

Color Paintings of German U-boats

The Truth About Jutland

The Sinking of the Lusitania

The Destruction of the Lusitania

The Deathless Story of the Lusitania

British Sub In the Golden Horn

The Zeebrugge Raid 01

The Zeebrugge Raid 02  .

Special Features

Paris at War / Paris Fortifications

(with extensive text and illustration galleries from the mobilization in 1914 to the Victory Parade in 1919)

The Battle of Verdun

(the battlefield as seen by Great War newsmagazines - extensive collection of magazine photos)

French Children at War

(the glorification of adolescent soldiers)

August 1914 in Brussels : Mobilization and Occupation

(with text and photo galleries)

The Roses of No-Man's Land : Nurses in the Great War

(with extensive illustration galleries and several texts)

Uniforms / Color Photos

(a collection of colorful drawings and illustrations of all combatants) (1911 color photos)

Hail to the Chiefs : Portraits of Allied Generals / Portraits of German Generals and Admirals

(the men who gave the orders behind the Front)  . 

Special Interest Reporting

from wartime magazines and newspapers : in-depth, technical and human interest articles

 

Everyday Life on the Western Front

War-Horses for the British Army

How the Horse was Cared for at the Front

How British Wounded Were Brought Home

Making Barbed Wire

Barbed Wire

Finding Land Mines by Sound

The Garbage of War : Recycling War Material

Salvaging War Material

British Army Salvage Corps

On Fortifications

The Hand Grenade in War

The Tunnels of Arras

Colored Workers with the Allied Armies

Soldier's Superstitions

Living in Mud

Midnight Trench Raids / Going on a Night Raid / In the Darkest Hours

War by Night

Going on a Daylight Raid / Raids on Winter Nights

Flamethrowers in Warfare

The Dispatch Rider

A British View of the Hindenburg Line

Oxford Man with the Dispatch-Riders

A Bishop at the Front

Body Armor in the Trenches

Sniping the Sniper

Life in Dug-Outs

Underground Quarter

The Terrible Game of Mine & Counter-Mine

Tunneling Under Enemy Lines

Overseas Dominion Tunnelers

Demobilizing the British Army

A Night March

Carrying on at the Old Hotel

At Army Headquarters

British Howitzers

The Work of the Pioneers

British Machine Guns

Trench Warfare in 1914

Trench Warfare in 1915

Leading an Attack

How the ';Big Push' is Prepared

Mines and Craters on the Western Front

Moving a Battery by Night

How Lieutenant Smyth, of the 15th Sikhs, Won the V.C

A Reporter's German Helmet

What If There Had Been a Channel Tunnel ?

Will The War Change England? (by H.G. Wells)

The War of the Mind (by H.G. Wells)

Making Staff Officers for the American Expeditionary Force

The Race Question as a Cause of War

The Geography of the War

The "Padre" in the Fighting-Line

Y.M.C.A

Just for a Riband - the French Legion of Honor

Mademoiselle 'Soixante-Quinze' - The French 75 mm Artillery Piece

Evacuating French Wounded

Emilienne Moreau - the Lady of Loos : a Civilian Heroine

Garibaldi's Grandsons Fighting for France

The Little Corporal : 14 year-old French Soldier

Priests under Arms

Theodore Botrel - a Military Minstrel

Glimpses of the Soul of France 

Boy Scouts During the War

Noblesse Oblige : Europe's Crowned Heads Play Nurse

A Belgian Dispatch-Rider

Women Warriors of Death

Building a German Bunker

The Kaiser in London

Female Soldiers - a Post-War View

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Portraits of Soldiers and Armies

 

Le Piou-Piou : Portrait of the French Soldier

The Poilu as I Know Him

The 'Blue Devils' - les Chasseurs Alpins

Chasseurs Alpins Described by a Spanish Journalist

Soldiers of France

Messieurs les Poilus

The Fusiliers Marins

The Death and Resurrection of the Foreign Legion

French Gallantry in the Field

The French Soldier Seen by a Spanish Journalist

The Saints of France

How France Found Her Black Legions 

The Sailors with a Rifle

The Growth of the American Army

Talking with American Combat Troops in France

The American Army in France

Alan Seeger - American Poet in the Foreign Legion

American Soldier in the Foreign Legion

Australia Seeing it Through

Australians in Combat

A Spanish Impression of the British Front

A Spanish Journalist on French and British Brotherhood

The Men in Khaki

Highlanders

Kitchener's Mob : Training the Army

British Manpower Discussion

A Description of the 'New Contemptible Little Army'

Indian Soldiers on the Western Front

Our Far-flung Empire's Fighters

The Coldstream Guards

An American Reporter with the Canadians

Canadian Machine-Gunners in Action

Cherokee Indian Officer in Canadian Battalion

The Russian Soldier

Ivan Ivanovitch

King Albert's Men

Chinese Labor Batallions on the British Front

The Rumanian Soldier

The Italian Soldier

Czechoslovak Legionnaires

Portraits of Generals and Leaders

 

A British View of General Ludendorff

An American Journalist Visits with the Kaiser

General Joffre - a British View at the Outbreak of War

General Joffre - a Spanish Journalist's View

Madame Joffre - the Generalissimo's Wife

General Foch - A Star Strategist

General de Castelnau

General Maurice Sarrail

General Sir Douglas Haig

General Sir Ian Hamilton, G.C.B.

A Portrait of General Allenby

Famous Generals - Sir E. H. Allenby, C.B.

Major-General Townshend

Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty

General Count Luigi Cadorna

A Portrait of General Alexeiff

Brusiloff: as His Sister Knows Him

Why Brusiloff Must Return

General Ivanoff

Grand Duke Nicholas

War Reputations

An American Journalist Visits with Marshall von Hindenburg

The Memoirs of Marshall von Hindenburg part 1

The Memoirs of Marshall von Hindenburg part 2

the Career of General von Falkenhayn

What Has Hindenburg Done? . 

Art, Artists and Illustrators of the Great War

Francois Flameng : the Landscapes of War

Francois Flameng : Images of War

Georges Scott : Myth and Realism

Lucien Jonas : Pathos, Patriotism and Religion

Louis Rémy Sabattier : Nurses, Fashion and the Home Front

'Hansi' - An Alsatian Artist

Jean Lefort : Impressionism and Watercolors

Henriot : Cartoons from L'Illustration

Victor Tardieu : Firing a French Railway Gun

Jean Droit : L'Infanterie Nouvelle

Aquarelles de Guerre de Jean Droit (French language text)

Charles Hoffbauer : 6 Months on the Somme

Woodcuts from 'La Guerre Raconté par Nos Généraux'

Reynolt : Decorative Design, a Collection of Great War Dropcaps

Ricardo Flores : a Series of Sketches

André Laffargue : Drawings of an Attack on an Enemy Trench

Raymond Desvarreaux : Behind the Lines

F. Charles Baude

Bernard Naudin : Two Drawings of French Soldiers

André Ventre : Proposal for a Monument at Fort Douamont

Henry Cheffer : Illustrations of French Heavy Artillery

Charles Hoffbauer : Trench Scenes

Georges LeRoux : Trench Scenes

From the Battlefield Sketchbook of Georges Victor-Hugo

Guy Arnoux - Marshall Joffre :14 Illustrations

Guy Arnoux : French Soldiers in 1917

J. Simont : Illustrative Realism from 'L'Illustration'

Francesque Poulbot : the French 'Our Gang' during the Great War

Georges Redon : a Moral Education for the Children of France

Eugène Damblans - la Grande Geste

Charles Louis Blombléd - Coverpages for the Tabloid Press

Josephe-Félix Bouchor - the Everyday Realism of War

Maturin Méheut- un Artiste Combattant (French language text)

Les Peintres de la Guerre (French language text)

Steinlen : Pages de Guerre (French language text)

Les Humoristes de la Guerre (French language text)

Fortunino Matania : for King and Country

Stanley Wood : Illustrations for the Working Class

R. Caton Woodville

Frederic Villiers : an Old Campaigner Goes to War for the Last Time

The Influence of the War on Art

Alfred Bastien : Panorama de l'Yser

James Thiriar : Artist with the Belgian Army

James Thiriar : Story of the War

James Thiriar : The Yser Front

André Leynen : Artist with the Belgian Army

Joe English : First Aid Drawings

Alfred Bastien : Working for the British Press

Leon Huygens - La Cagna des Artistes (French language text)

Au Pays des Héros (French language text)

The Genius of Raemaekers by Theodore Roosevelt (text only)

Felix Schwormstaedt : Illustrator for the 'Illustrirte Zeitung'

Richard Axmann : with the Austro-Hungarian Armies on the Galician Front

Alfred Roloff : Working for the Illustrierte Geschichte des Weltkrieges

Brynolf Wennerberg : the Romantic Side of the Homefront

Ernst Vollbehr : a Year on the Western Front

Georg Stroebel : on the Western Front for the Illustrirte Zeitung'

Fritz Bergen : Illustrator of Children's Books and Magazines

Albert Reich - Illustrations for Children's Books and Magazines

Albert Reich - at Verdun

C. Boessenroth : Color Paintings of German U-boats

Theodor Rocholl - in Picardy and Artois, 1915

German War-Artists - Hans von Hanef, Fritz Rhein, Eduard Thoenn

German War-Artists - Hans Meyerkassel, Friedrich Fehr, Arnold Busch, Georg Wagenfuehr

Paintings of German Cemetaries in the Carpathians

Malerei und Weltkrieg (German language text)

 

Postcards 

Flags All a Flutter : Allied Solidarity in Postcards

Colorful French Army Postcard Series

French Army Chromos

Romantic Kitsch

Waving the Flag : Vive la France

Colorful German Army Postcards

German Sweethearts

Brave Little Belgium : Around the War in 80 Postcards

Atrocity Postcards

'Types' of Soldiers : a Humorous View .  .

Spies, Executions and the Horrors of War

The Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell

The Martyrdom of Miss Cavell

The Execution of Cesare Battisti

Execution of a French Soldier

Tales of Spies

Tales of Female Spies

Hun Spies in France

Spies : Getting Short Shrift

Of Spies and Things

Under Eastern Eyes - Spying in the Middle-East

Atrocity Stories Illustrated

'La Belgique Heroique et Martyre' : Atrocities Illustrated

Forging Swords into Plowshares : Anti-War Books from the 1920s

Photographing the Dead : Never a Dearth of Corpses

Censored Photos in France

Censored Photos in Germany

Hermann Rex : Unpublished War Photos

Whatever Happened to Gavro Princip ?

An American Journalist Visits Austro-Hungarian Hospitals

Civilians Fleeing the Enemy

A French Mother in War Time

German Atrocities

Atrocties in Serbia

The Armenians  

The Lighter Side

Anything for a laugh : irreverant, humorous and silly things

An Itch to Scratch : Soldier's Brothels & Other Naughty Pastimes

Putting on a Show for the Troops

French Front-line Theater

Great War Gizmos : Great Ideas that Never Caught on

More Great War Gizmos - It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

Dogs and Wildlife

Humor on Crutches

Music of the Heavenly Spheres : Soldier's Orchestras

Songs of the Great War

All in the Family : General-Oberst von Kluck and Lovely Grandaughter

Science Fiction of the Great War

Gas Attacks of a Different Kind : Latrine Humor

War Time Photography Contest

Home Sweet Home : Soldier's Housing Behind the Front

Grafitti and Trench Art

A Great War Cruise Missle

The Oldest Serving French and British Soldiers by the War's End

Everyday Life in the Trenches : a Series of Drawings

A Collection of War Time Cartoons from 'La Vie Parisienne'

'Fragments from France' : Great War Humor by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather

Delivering Mail : Neither Rain nor Hail nor Snow nor Artillery Barrage

Patriotic Pins and Things

Hot Dogs

Animals at War : We're All in This Together

Back to the Stone Age : Living in Quarries and Caves in Northern France

The Humor of T. Atkins

Campaigning in France - French Hospitality

The Small, the Tall and the Ugly

In Praise of Cigarettes

Flies - a Fantasy

Baby Silences a Battery

The Solace of Literature in the Trenches

Non-English Magazine Articles

Links to Other Great War Sites

Bibliography of Old and Modern Great War Books (with an extensive number of links listed by author)

A Special Bibliography of American Related War Books