1914-1918 Archives

1914-1918

“Put on the Diamonds”

by Vivian Gornick,

Notes on humiliation

The Old Normal

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Why we can’t beat our addiction to war

Discovery, Interrupted

by Jeffrey Friedman,

How World War I delayed a treatment for diabetes and derailed one man’s chance at immortality

The Ghosts of Versailles

by Kevin Baker,

Ahundred years ago this month, the First World War shuddered to a close. The end came when the armistice took effect on the Western Front at 11 am on November…

American Imperium

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

Riding the Night

by John Masefield,

All the way, at odd times, far off, with neither sense nor sequence, the guns have sounded almost like the noises of peace — blasting or pile-driving. Now, outside the…

My Two Visits to Verdun

by Walter Hale,

commenced in February. It was over the Voie Sacrée that the gallant Twentieth Corps — the corps d’attaque that has been used as the drivingwedge in every big assault since…

The Seductive Catastrophe

by Frederic Morton,

Why the world went to war in 1914

Stop Time

by Chloe Dewe Mathews, Geoff Dyer,

Remembering World War I’s executed deserters

Artful Dodger

From a note sent in 1917 to the Appeal Tribunal in Middlesex, England, which reviewed requests for exemption from military service during World War I. The note is included in…

The Great War

by Joe Sacco,