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Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War by Frances Wood and Christopher Arnander
Reviewed by Phil Curme. Although Chinese labourers were active on the Western Front throughout WW1 - and afterwards - many will be unaware of the full breadth that nation’s involvement. Betrayed Ally is an ambitious attempt to tell the history of foreign intervention in Chinese affairs, military actions in the Great War against German interests in…
Versailles and the Origins of World War II with Simon Peaple
Simon offers a wide-ranging review of the terms of the post-war settlement and their consequences. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Warwick Arms Hotel has a bar area which provides refreshments. There will be a question and answer session after the talk, followed by a raffle. Members and non-members of The Western Front Association are equally welcome. New v…
'1919: Versailles and the Origins of World War II' - Dr Simon Peaple
NOTE DATE - Thursday 16th December 2021 Dr Simon Peaple— 1919: Versailles and the Origins of World War II Dr Peaple is the now retired head of History at Princethorpe College, an author and experienced local politician with a PhD in history from Birmingham University. Simon will consider the debate over the links with the Versailles and other …
Ep.251 – Debating America’s response to the Great War – Dr Neil Lanctot
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Historian Dr Neil Lanctot talks about his recent book The Approaching Storm which explores the domestic debates and discussions that informed America’s response to the outbreak of the Great War and its eventual declaration of war in April 1917. The Approaching Storm explores the perspectives of three prominent US newsmakers: President Woodrow Wi…
In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War - Sarajevo to Versailles (Volume 1)
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The Western Front Association is supporting an event at Hungary House in London at 6pm on Thursday 30th June 2022 to mark the UK launch of Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy's book, In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War - Sarajevo to Versailles (Volume 1). The book launch and a related photo exhibition event will be held in the Hungary House in Lond…
In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War Book Launch at the Liszt Institute in London 30 June 2022
On the evening of 30 June 2022, the 106th anniversary of the eve of the Battle of the Somme, members of The Western Front Association and others attended the UK book launch of Attila Szalay-Berzviczy’s first volume of In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War, from Sarajevo to Versailles at the Liszt Institute in London. The event was co-hoste…
In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War from Sarajevo to Versailles VOL I by Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy
It is an ambitious author and photographer who states that the aim of his book is to ‘help prevent the Third World War’, but from someone who is now Hungary’s Ambassador to France, I applaud his ambition that if we ‘understand the reasons and the consequences of the First World War’, we can understand the reasons and consequences of all war, let al…