Wilhelm Busch, reflecting on Christmas past as a young German soldier in World War One, noted that the overwhelming sense of… Read more Wilhelm Busch’s World War One Christmas Story: Carols From a German Dugout
Tag: World War One
Ode To Frederick William Petrie: Of Bombs & Broken Tracks
Seventeen craters and counting, Shells fall, there’s no moving a train running hard. Sulfur, smoke and coal, Whistle blows; splinters… Read more Ode To Frederick William Petrie: Of Bombs & Broken Tracks
ANZAC
Orchestrated by socio-political heavy weights such as Lord Kitchener, and younger politicians like Winston Churchill. Commonwealth soldiers landed in the beach… Read more ANZAC
Vernon Kellogg: An Inadvertent Critique of Scientism
Writing seven years after the date of the excerpt below, Vernon Kellogg in an article for ‘The Atlantic’, wrote a response to William… Read more Vernon Kellogg: An Inadvertent Critique of Scientism
Remembrance Day (aka Armistice Day)
The English dictionary points out that the word remembrance has two primary definitions. First: The ability to recall past occurrences Second: A… Read more Remembrance Day (aka Armistice Day)
Anzac Day, 2013
Right or wrong, ninety-eight years ago, Australian and New Zealand troops, joined their British and Indian allies, in a Commonwealth… Read more Anzac Day, 2013
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