World War I
Squandered Lives and Snuffed Out Genius: Mises, Tolkien, and World War I
Recently in The Times, Richard Morrison discussed, “The musicians silenced in the carnage of the Great War,” this being the centennial year of World War I.
Brandon Martinez on Canadian “Remembrance Day” Jingoism
Freelance writer Brandon Martinez debunks the myth of Canada’s benevolence vis-a-vis foreign policy and the “good war” legend of World War II.
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Their history and ours: the first world war that won’t be commemorated in 2014
By Neil Faulkner | No Glory in War | January 5, 2014
Military historian Max Hastings and education minister Michael Gove say we should should blame the Germans for World War I and celebrate the victory for ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’. Archaeologist Neil Faulkner disagrees.
How to stop the commemoration of WWI becoming a justification for future wars
By John Rees | No Glory | January 30, 2014
The effect of the Parliament’s decision not to attack Syria last year is still reverberating through the Western military establishment.
No Glory in War: “My Dad and My Uncle were in World War One”
My Dad and my Uncle were in World War One.
At least they were in it, but not in it:
Conscripted but never committed.
My Dad was called up in 1915,
And then run over by a field gun
In an army camp at Lydd marsh in Kent,
So he never actually made it
Across the Channel to fight.
His pelvis and both legs were crushed,
In his first week, in a training exercise,
By a Howitzer rolling downhill.
It weighed over thirty hundredweight.
While pushing and dragging the gun up a slope