Blinded by German tear gas, British soldiers wait for treatment in Flanders, a region in northern France and Belgium, 1918. . . . . . ... German Navy U-boats had, in fact, devastated British merchant fleets so badly by 1917 that British defeat was imminent. . ..…
Central to his argument is the assertion that the causes to which other historians have ascribed the Anglo- German in the years leading up to the war, did not menace British. ..…
Britain feared German commercial and naval competition. At the time, the British Empire controlled one quarter of the world’s surface. ... A lot of the Germans’ problem, vis-a-vis neutrals, was that they were horrible at PR. ..…
Large-scale violence scarred postwar societies in Ireland, on the German-Polish border, in the Middle East. And the British maintained the Hunger Blockade on Germany for many more hungry months. . ..…
Remembered for brutal trench warfare and the first use of chemical weapons, WWI pitted the armies of France, British, Russia and U.S against German-led coalition that included Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires. ..…
He documented it once more in the rise, pride and inevitable fall of British Empire and in German attempts to create dominant empires in both world wars of the 20th century. ..…
At Sunday's, young students, born decades after World Word II, read out English, Chinese and French etc testimonies written by French, German, British and American soldiers when the guns fell silent on Nov 11, 1918.. ..…
At the time of the outbreak of First World War in Middle East the region was controlled by large empires, including Ottomans, French and British. While the allies and Germans Europe were preparing for the in 1918, the remnants of Ottoman and Arabs. ..…
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