Double Cross at Scapa Flow Berlin Concludes Resistance is Futile. Wilson Takes Charge Special to The Great War Project President Wilson digs in his heals. He will make no changes in the draft treaty, despite pressure from a growing number of delegates to do so. So reports historian Thomas Fleming. And when the British PM…
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GERMANY SUFFERING ECONOMIC WARFARE
by Mike Shuster
Everything in Short Supply Germans Fainting in the Streets Not Even a Single Loaf of Bread, Nor a Glimmer of Guilt. Special to The Great War Project. (11 February) The British blockade of Germany is nearly air tight. “The addition of ships from the U.S. Navy,” reports historian Thomas Fleming, “enabled the British to create…
TWO YEARS IN, IT’S TOTAL WAR
by Mike Shuster
A Conflict Never Before Seen in Europe British Goal: Starve the Germans into Submission; It’s Working. Special to The Great War Project. (31 July-3 August) It’s now two years into this terrible war, and the toll of death is already far greater, writes historian Adam Hochschild, than during the entire Napoleonic Wars, the last great…
A YEAR OF WAR AND NO END IN SIGHT
by Mike Shuster
War Spreads; Millions Die Fight to the End, Kaiser Vows Special to The Great War Project (1-3 August) Kaiser Wilhelm, the leader of Germany, uses the occasion of the first anniversary of the outbreak of the war on August 2nd a hundred years ago, to proclaim his support for Germany’s continuing the war until victory.…