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The war of the forts seen by Fritz Weber
Fritz Weber, Austrian writer and journalist, was born in 1895 and died in Vienna in 1972. He participated in the Great War and told of his experiences in many books. As artillery officer, he served for...
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The European Socialists and war. The Zimmerwald Manifesto
The Socialist International was a union between all the socialist parties of the world, trying to give life to the principle of “proletarian internationalism”. Hegemony in the International was in the...
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A comparison of Commanders: John French and Douglas Haig
At the outbreak of the “Great War” the officer class was the result of a strict and old-fashioned education based on nineteenth-century military manuals derived from those of the Napoleonic period. The...
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Voices from Gallipoli
Compared to the Western Front, the operations around Gallipoli involved a relatively small number of troops for a short time, about a year. Nevertheless, the Turkish and Allied troops engaged a fierce...
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Scientists and the Great War
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys MoseleyBorn in Weymouth on 23 November 1887, he was an English physicist. In 1910 he received a degree in physics at Trinity College, Oxford. After receiving his degree, he moved to...
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Churchill and the Great War
Woodstock1965 London1874Winston Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November of 1874 in Woodstock, son of lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, an important conservative politician. Churchill went to the...
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Voices from the White War
Arnaldo Berni (1894-1918), from Mantua, sergeant, then captain of Alpini stationed in Valtellina (Battalion "Tirano"). He died in one of the last battles between Italians and Imperials on Mount San...
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Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck
Saarlouis1964Hamburg1870Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, a German officer descending from a Pomeranian noble family with a long military tradition, was born on 20 March 1870 in the town of Saarlouis, in the...
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Documents about the Easter Rising
Irish sideThe April 24, 1916 - Easter Monday - from the steps of the General Post Office on O'Connell Street in Dublin, Patrick Pearse proclaimed the Republic of Ireland. It started the Easter Rising...
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Voices of Strafexpedition
Fritz Weber (1895-1972), an officer of the Austro-Hungarian army, was in the garrison of Fort Verle (now in Trentino), he fought on the Asiago Plateau, the Pasubio and the Karst. From his work, Das...
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Voices from the Somme
The Somme Offensive, was a battle fought by the army of the British Empire against the German Empire. The first day of the offensive was the worst day in the history of the British Army, which had...
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Cesare Battisti e l'Irredentismo
Trento1916Trento1875Cesare Battisti – Italian politician, Irredentist, journalist and soldier – was born in Trento on 4 February 1875. He came from a middle-class family and grew up in Trentino under...
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Pietro Badoglio
Grazzano Monferrato1956Grazzano Badoglio1871August 6, 1916, at 7 am, the Italian artillery opened a violent barrage from Tolmin to the sea. The Sixth Battle of the Isonzo had begun and would have ended...
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Testimonies of the conquest of Gorizia, August 1916
Lyrics of O Gorizia tu sei maledetta (In english “Oh Gorizia you are cursed), folk song of anonymous author, referring to the battle that led to the Italian conquest of the city, between 7 and 10...
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War psychiatry: Mad soldiers or soldiers that “acted” mad?
The figure of the wild, insane, oblivious, stunned soldier that recognises no one and has become unrecognisable, was a product specifically of the Great War, a new phenomenon of the conflict being...
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Giuseppe Ungaretti
Alexandria, Egypt1970Milan1888Giuseppe Ungaretti was born in Alexandria on 8 February 1888 into a family from Lucca. His father had moved to Egypt to work on digging the Suez Canal. The work was...
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Verdun: a French testimony
Georges Caubet, born in Toulouse and a schoolteacher since 1908, was called up on 4 August 1914 to serve as sergeant of the 67th division of the French army. His diaries preserve the memories of the...
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Philippe Pétain
Cauchy-à-la-Tour1951L'Île-d'Yeu1856Philippe Pétain is one of the most important but also controversial figures in contemporary French history. His remarkable longevity took him though several pivotal...
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Women in the Great War
Teresa Labriola (Naples, 17 February 1874 - Rome, 6 February 1941).Daughter of Antonio Labriola, known Marxist philosopher, grew into a lively and stimulating milieu. Enrolled in the Faculty of Law,...
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Voices of women in the Great War
It is known that in the war propaganda, the image of woman was presented in the name of reaffirmation of the traditional roles of mothers, sisters and wives, obedient and in solidarity with the destiny...
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