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The Emperors: How Europe’s Rulers were destroyed by The First World War
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By Gareth Rusell
Amberley Publishing, 2015, £9.99, 227pp, soft covers; illustrated plus notes, bibliography and index Also available in hardback.
ISBN 978-1-4456-5020-0
Book review by Barbara Taylor
To understand how the First World War came about, it is necessary to understand the way in which regimes in the main empires involved operated. Th...
Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of War, 1914 - Michael S. Neiberg
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336 pages Belknap Press Publication Date: 10/14/2013 ISBN 9780674725935 ‘Dance of the Furies’ by Michael S Neiberg is a definitive social history of Europe leading up to the outbreak of world war, its initial spasms and the first months of the conflict. ‘Dance of the Furies’ is a comprehensive academic study into the lives of those who were liv...
Mutiny in North Russia 7 July 1919
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In the early morning of 7 July 1919, four British Officers were killed by men in their battalion – one further officer subsequently died of his wounds a few days later. All were serving in Dyer’s Battalion of the Slavo-British Legion in the North Russian Expeditionary Force and are now buried in Archangel Allied Cemetery. Above: Archangel Alli...
Film Review : '1918 The Battle of Kruty' by Aleksey Shaparev
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1918 The Battle of Kruty is top and tailed by a contemporary Ukrainian soldier visiting the memorial to those killed at Kruty in January 1918 the tale tells the story of a group of students, their loves and families, as plucky efforts are made to stave off the conquest of Ukraine by the burgeoning and enormous forces of the Bolshevik army. With...
History's Greatest Heist: the Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks by Sean McMeekin
Yale, 2008 $38, 228 pp, ills, index. ISBN 978 0 3001 3558 9 This is a factual tale of cops and robbers, mainly robbers, who claimed they were Robin Hoods expropriating the expropriators to benefit the proletariat. Almost all the gold, currency, silver, jewels and jewellery the Bolsheviks seized from Russian and foreign bankers, industrialists,...
The Russian Front by Phil Tomaselli
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We welcome Phil Tomaselli who will be speaking on the Russian Front and explain this little known period of the Great War and how it would lead to the downfall of Russian Royalty.
Ep.309 – Russian military strategy in the First World War – Dr Sofya Anisimova
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Dr Sofya Anisimova talks about Russian military strategy during the First World War. Your browser does not support the audio element. Sofya is a post doctoral researcher at University College Dublin in Ireland. Sofya examines the m...
The Journal of The Western Front Association Stand To! No. 132 is out today
Stand To! No.132 is out now. Print copies have been delivered, digital copies are about to go out to Digital Members, and it will also shortly be made available via out digital search plaform. Stand To! 132 Contents The Camera Returns (113) by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall...4–5 The War in Ukraine and the First World War by Hew Strachan...6–11 Ge...
Did World War One cause more tension or unity between ethnic components of Empires on the Eastern front
The following essay submitted to the 2023 Colin Hardy Memorial Prize was the first runner up. It is by Arthur Beresford Jones, age 17, attending the Stephen Perse Foundation, Cambridge.
The Eastern Front of the First World War is an often overlooked aspect of the war. While the Western Front arguably entailed the largest and most destructive bat...
Did World War One cause more tension or unity between ethnic components of Empires on the Eastern front
The following essay submitted to the 2023 Colin Hardy Memorial Prize was the first runner up. It is by Arthur Beresford Jones, age 17, attending the Stephen Perse Foundation, Cambridge. The Eastern Front of the First World War is an often overlooked aspect of the war. While the Western Front arguably entailed the largest and most destructive bat...
'Elope with the RAF' with Andy Tonge
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Andy Tonge will be talking about 'Elope with the RAF' This is the name given to Allied forces operating out of Archangel and fighting on the Dvina river in Russia. Featured image: Bolshevik prisoners under the custody of US troops in Arkhangelsk 1918. Paul Mentzer Photographs of the Great War
Russia and the First World War - a talk by Professor Evan Mawdsley
Delegates from both sides around the table during the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk in December 1917.Image: IWM (Q 86727) Our final branch meeting of 2024 will consider why the Eastern Front is so often a neglected (but important) subject. It will also look at the links between the World War, the 1917 Revolution, and the Russian Civil Wa...
Russia in WW1
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Evan Mawdsley. Evan Mawdsley, was Professor of International History at the University of Glasgow. His teaching and research were concerned mainly with 20th century Russian History and also the History of the Second World War. Evan will present on, and consider why the Eastern Front is so often a neglected subject, despite its obvious importance...
Churchill's Intervention: The North Russian Relief Force 1919 - Andy Stuart
Whilst most of the troops were looking forward to going home after the Armistice in 1919, many were committed to Russia to support the anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian Civil War. This is an area that many may have heard of but not always know a lot about, involving troops from many Western nations. Andy’s grandfather served in this conflict....
The Life and Times of Kaiser Wilhelm II by Gerry White
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During the Great War, many people considered the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, to be the embodiment of Prussian militarism and the Supreme War Lord who directed Germany’s military campaigns during the conflict. But how much of this picture is true? In this presentation, Gerry White looks at the Kaiser’s life and times. The topics covered in...