Lenin, Trotsky, Einstein Among Voices Opposing War. Famed Physicist Sees No Quick End to It. Special to The Great War Project. (5-7 September) The anti-war movement in Europe is growing. In the face of all the slaughter, death, and destruction, finally a movement – small to be sure – is beginning to have its voice…
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PREPARATIONS UNDER WAY FOR GREAT BRITISH LANDING AT GALLIPOLI.
by Mike Shuster
Fight On, the Cry from All Sides. Only Lone Voices in Opposition. Special to The Great War Project (24-26 March) Stalemate and deadlock still prevail on the Western Front in northern France and Belgium. Elsewhere, defeat after defeat, slaughter after slaughter on both sides only steels the determination to fight on. Writes historian Martin Gilbert:…
WINTER COMES TO THE EASTERN FRONT, BRINGING ITS OWN DEAD
by Mike Shuster
Einstein Wants End to War; Lenin Sees Civil War Spreading Special to The Great War Project (12-21 November) Many significant developments during these days across the broad bloody tapestry of the war, one hundred years ago. Two powerful individuals are watching the war spread: the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin from his safe perch in Switzerland…