Animals in World War 1: Horses, Pigeons and Dogs at the Front
Roughly 8 million horses, mules and donkeys, over 100,000 homing pigeons and tens of thousands of dogs: how animals carried the logistics, communications and medicine of 1914-1918.
Read →Roughly 8 million horses, mules and donkeys, over 100,000 homing pigeons and tens of thousands of dogs: how animals carried the logistics, communications and medicine of 1914-1918.
Read →The unofficial ceasefire on the Western Front, 24-26 December 1914: around 100,000 soldiers, the truth about the football match, and why it never happened again.
Read →Artillery caused roughly 60% of battlefield casualties in 1914-1918. A guide to gun types, Big Bertha and the Paris Gun, the shell crisis, the creeping barrage and counter-battery fire.
Read →A skeleton of dates: four phases of the war from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918, and three lessons that apply to a Frontkrieg match.
Read →Who commanded the armies of 1914-1918, which decisions actually mattered, and what carries over into Frontkrieg.
Read →An overnight checklist for Frontkrieg: fortresses, morale, scouting and reserves so you do not lose provinces while you sleep.
Read →Mobilization in 1914 ran to the minute: 11,000 troop trains, 6 weeks to beat France, and two incompatible track gauges. How railways decided World War 1.
Read →Four campaigns in Africa, Tsingtao and Samoa, 14,000 men against 114,000 and the last surrender on 25 November 1918.
Read →Ten multiplayer grand strategy games compared on premium currency, install, match length and languages, with every figure checked against a primary source. Four of them share one publisher.
Read →By 1918 about a million British women worked in munitions. A breakdown of the WW1 home front: factories, ration cards, the Turnip Winter and the vote as payment for four years of labour.
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