Sentiment Strong Everywhere – For Continued War and For Ending It. A New Theme Emerges: Blame the Jews Special to The Great War Project. (21 January) “The desire to continue the war, and the hope of ending it, were in conflict in every nation.” So writes historian Martin Gilbert, of the balance of sentiment in…
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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…