AN END OF SORTS. The eastern front was collapsing.
The dangers of believing history written by the victors are considerable.
SOMETIMES, THERE WERE too many narratives. Sometimes, it is better to think of men and women, rather than whole nations…
THERE WAS NO CLARITY — only danger and growing desperation.
THE NEW YEAR began with the Allies rejecting the German so-called peace proposals. Viewed from this distance of time, the whole…
ONE HUNDRED YEARS ON, it remains a struggle to enter into the mind of the last of the Tsars.
WE HAVE TO be careful. History becomes all-too-easily whatever it is the victorious party decides.
In fact, very careful. This was the week that Germany announced the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare. Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg gave the…
WE CAN SEE what they could not. Russia was on the skids.
SOMETIMES, IT WAS hard to tell.
IT DID NOT require a great offensive to spawn terror and misery.
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