‘Beyond Human Nature to Bare’ Yet the Slaughter Continues Into Another Year Special to The Great War Project. (24 December) Here’s where things stand in the Great War as 1917 turns to 1918. As 1917 comes to an end, reports historian Martin Gilbert, “there is no prospect of peace in Europe.” Even the ceasefire in…
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INSURRECTION IN THE GERMAN MILITARY
by Mike Shuster
Navy is Cauldron of Dissent. Mutineers Jailed and Shot. Special to The Great War Project. (20 August) Fighting is furious once again at the Belgian town of Ypres on the Western Front a century ago, provoking disillusion in the German ranks. It’s one of the first moments that this dissent breaks out into public view.…