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War and Remembrance: Artillery and The Great War
2008-11-11 06:01:00 Today is Veterans Day in the U.S., Remembrance Day in the British Commonwealth, National Day in Poland, and Armistice Day in Belgium and France. The holiday marks the end of World War I, a four-year conflict whose cease-fire took effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh m
The Great War for Civilisation...Book Review
2008-05-19 09:37:00 The Great War for Civilisation Robert Fisk.2005.Harper Perennial.1286 pages. Biblography.Notes.Index.This hefty paperback covers the author's 30 or so years covering Middle East affairs.He writes of places such as Afghanistan,Algeria,Iraq,Iran,I-srael and Syria and figures such as King Hussein,Arafat,Blair,Bush and Bin Laden among others.It is also part autobiographical as he writes of his upbringing and his parents.While noting firstly,that I lack the necessary historical background,first hand knowledge and experience to authoritatively question his views and secondly,this blog is hardly the place to debate weighty matters of state,some things are worth mentioning.Fisk has strong views on the role of journalists and their freedom to report and criticise as they see fit."Our job is to record,to point the finger when we can,to challenge those centres of power..."pg1280.He doesnt seem a big fan of embedded journalism and decries the practice of "hotel journalism"pg 1239.He's also cri...
By: porcelain-monkey
A dose of the Great War: the story of an unsung guerilla (2)
2008-04-06 17:12:00 ?When Gen. MacArthur and his troops landed in Palo bay, several of us local guerillas paved the way for the Americans to attack Ormoc and recapture the valley. In my company, we were 50 and after three days of gunfire, our number was reduced to 29. But the reward was a swift victory. A few days later after the victory in Ormoc, a Japanese fleet was seen in the bay of Villaba and Palompon in the northwestern part of Leyte transporting soldiers from Luzon, but their reinforcement was too late. An allied fighter plane dropped several bombs on the fleet; the Japanese was caught by surprise attack, and so they had no other choice but to jump into the sea to survive.??I knew then that the war would not last for another ten years?we couldn?t afford to wait even for a year of pain and suffering. The war must be stopped. My best friend was killed when we were attacked in our barracks; he died on my arms. That was terrible, and sad. When he was dying, I did not say anything. I was silent unti...
A dose of the Great War: the story of an unsung guerilla
2008-04-04 14:51:00 The World War II was the bloodiest war in human history. Heroes were rewarded with their names written in history books. The villains were remembered as war criminals. But both of them were human slayers?in a sense they?re all criminals.But according to the definition of the heroes who wrote history from the perspective of the victor?they?re the saviours of humanity, and the villains the dark cloud that murdered innocent people both military and civilians.With this, one can only surmise on how to justify the hundreds of thousands of civilians who died during the bombing of Hiroshima (6 August 1945) and Nagasaki (9 August 1945) to force the surrender of the Japanese Imperial Army.The United States forces under the command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and the Allied Forces were, according to most history textbooks, the heroes. And the villains were the infamous Nazi Adolf Hitler who murdered millions of Jews and Emperor Hirohito of Japan; the dark horse was Josef Stalin of USSR whose for...
Exploring Small Stories of the Great War
2008-02-29 11:13:00 By MICHIKO KAKUTANIFeb 29, NY TimesWith her new novel, “Life Class,” Pat Barker returns to the subject of World War I — a subject that earned her immense acclaim in the 1990s with her “Regeneration” trilogy (“Regeneration,” “The Eye in the Door” and “The Ghost Road”), an artful improvisation on the lives of the poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and their compatriots, which unfurled into a fierce meditation on the horrors of war and its psychological aftermath.After several intriguing but lumpy novels set in the present or near-present, it becomes clear to the reader that World War I resonates with Ms. Barker with special force, for “Life Class” possesses the organic power and narrative sweep that her recent books with more contemporary settings lack.Perhaps it’s that Ms. Barker’s tactile ability to conjure the fetid horror of the trenches and the field hospitals has little applicable use in describing daily life in modern-day Britain....
Letters from an English Soldier in the Great War
2007-11-26 02:59:00 Since 2006 there has been a blog by a man who fought in the Great War. Really. Well, he did not start WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier himself, but his letters are being posted there 90 years to the day after he wrote them. [hat tip]© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman
The Great War
2007-10-15 11:51:00 There is a free audio-download every day for next couple of weeks at MeDownloaded of a first-hand account of The Great War taken from Max Arthur’s compilation of First World War memories, ‘Forgotten Voices of the Great War’. This accompanies the release of The Great War DVD collection in The Daily Mail. Look out for a ...
New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand, The Allies and The First ... - St
2007-08-12 04:29:00 New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand, The Allies and The First ...Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 2 hours agoWith the 90th anniversary of the battle of Passchendaele upon us, Harvey McQueen looks at a major revisionist history of World War I and laments the absence ...
Movie Recommendations: The Great War
2007-08-04 02:01:00 All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone, 1930.Westfront 1918, directed by G. W. Pabst, 1930.La Grande Illusion, directed by Jean Renoir, 1937.Gallipoli, directed by Peter Weir, 1981.Capitaine Conan, directed by Bertrand Tavernier, 1996.© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman
By: History Survey
The Great War
2007-06-04 19:14:00 The World War I Document ArchiveArt of the First World WarPropoganda Postcards of the Great WarLost Poets of the Great War, Harry Rusche, English Department, Emory UniversityWorld War I: Trenches on the WebBBC News: The Great War: 80 Years On
The Great War
2007-06-04 19:14:00 The World War I Document ArchiveArt of the First World WarPropoganda Postcards of the Great WarLost Poets of the Great War, Harry Rusche, English Department, Emory UniversityWorld War I: Trenches on the WebBBC News: The Great War: 80 Years On© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman
The Great War
2007-03-29 05:32:00 Just a bit of history that shouldn't be forgotten... but has. The Great War; WWI. If you are bored and looking for something to read tonight, please click here. It's a quick read, and yet quite interesting.
Zionized Manifest Destiny of accursed Imperial U.S. in the final Great War
2007-03-01 04:49:00 "Independent of all other reasonings upon the subject, it is a full answer to those who require a more peremptory provision against military establishments in time of peace, to say that the whole power of the proposed government is to be in the hands of the representatives of the people... If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without reso... |
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