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ANTI-WAR RESISTANCE IN THE EAST AND THE WEST

 Bolsheviks Gain Strength in Russia A Poet Speaks Out in Britain Special to The Great War Project (25 June) In Russia on the Eastern Front, “the summer of 1917 was a chaotic one,” reports historian Adam Hochschild. “Russian troops were killing their officers or replacing them with soldiers’ soviets, and by the hundreds of thousands…

TALES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD

Eyewitnesses to the Carnage. The Muck and Grime of Death. Special to The Great War Project (22-25 May) Vicious fighting resumes again at Verdun in northern France on the Western Front. On May 23rd a century ago, the French attack at Fort Douaumont, outside the town of Verdun. It looks at first like the French…