Tag Archive for starvation

STARVATION!

‘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…

A FIGHT OVER HUNGER

Food is Running Out, for Allies and Adversaries. If U.S. Enters War, Germans Gamble American Help Won’t Reach Europe Soon Enough. Special to The Great War Project. (12-19 February) War exhaustion at this moment of the Great War a century ago is plaguing all the major combatants: Britain and France, Germany and Austria, and Russia.…

TWO YEARS IN, IT’S TOTAL WAR

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…

CRISIS ON ALL FRONTS

Both Sides Desperate to End War Enormous Preparations at Somme; Russian Front Collapsing; Starvation in Mesopotamia Special to The Great War Project (7-10 April) All the armies locked in battle are exhausted and desperate to end the war. So plans are underway on both the Eastern and Western Fronts, and in the Middle East, for…