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Book Review: Gallipoli, by Peter Hart

David Lauterborn — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:41:05 +0000

Peter Hart, oral historian at London's Imperial War Museum, reveals a trove of research on the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.

Veterans Day: History of a Symbol

dlindsay — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:02:06 +0000

How the red poppy and a poem by a World War I battlefield surgeon came to mean so much.

Portfolio: Navy Posters

Jennifer Berry — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:25:48 +0000

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Online Gallery: Navy Posters

dlindsay — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:25:42 +0000

Brawny sailors load a gun in a navy recruiting poster from World War I. (Library of Congress)

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MHQ's Winter 2012 issue features a story about how the U.S. navy has reinvented itself—and the American sailor—over the …

Book Review: Blood on the Snow, by Graydon J. Tunstall, and Breakthrough, by Richard L. DiNardo

David Lauterborn — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:30:38 +0000

Authors Graydon Tunstall and Richard DiNardo contribute toward our understanding of the World War I Eastern Front.

Killing Machines at Meuse-Argonne, 1918

ehoward — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:00:31 +0000

A young U.S. Army lieutenant gets a taste of the horror of mechanized warfare in September 1918, when American troops massed in a valley in northeastern France as part of the final major campaign of World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

Meuse-Argonne Image Gallery

Jennifer Berry — Tue, 03 May 2011 08:55:41 +0000

Gallery of images from the Meuse-Argonne offensive in World War I.

Frank Buckles, 110, Last of the Doughboys

David Lauterborn — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:22:44 +0000

Frank Buckles, 110, the last surviving American soldier from World War I, died on February 27, 2011

Little Soldiers: A French photojournalist captures Paris children playing at war in the dark days of World War I

Jennifer Berry — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:54:40 +0000

The French army was in a precarious position in the summer of 1915, as its offensives bogged down and casualties skyrocketed. L’Illustration, a popular image-driven newspaper, encouraged renowned Paris-based photojournalist Léon Gimpel to find subjects worthy of color photographs—a rarity at a time when the heavy equipment and complex processing of color newspaper photography meant few photographers could shoot for that medium. Inspired by poster artist Francisque Poulbot’s comic and colorful illustrations of children playing at war, Gimpel went to work.

Unstuck in Time: A Trip to Paimpont

Robert M. Citino — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:24:51 +0000

Most of us think of World War II as the "big one". That might not be true if you live in the small French village of Paimpont.