The Great War ended 100 years ago, on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918. The Great War comes up here from time to time:
- Lessons from Escape University
- Should America have entered World War I?
- I Have a Rendezvous With Death
- Noisemaking
- Halifax Explosion
- Arms Races and Misunderstandings
- Emotional Legacies of the Great War
- The War that Ended Peace
- I’ve read your book
- The Economic Consequences of the Peace
- Eric “Winkle” Brown
- A Rivalry in Invention
- Homogeneous, Self-Contained, Self-Sufficing Units
- Sickness and Exhaustion
- A Great War of Entrenchments
- Is war now impossible?
- Naval Technology in World War I
- McCarthy, the Wilsonite
- Courage and Power
- Prophets of the Great War
- Give ‘em the old razzle-dazzle
- The Great War
- Secrets of the Mystery Gun that Shelled Paris
- Combat Shotgun
- On Design Constraints
- Aerial Warfare Seen from 1910
- Military Logistics: A Brief History
- Our First View of the End of the World
- The Big One
My grandfather and my father fought over the same land a quarter century apart.