First World War

"„Die Rettung Seiner Majestät des Kaisers aus Lebensgefahr“ – so lauteten die Schlagzeilen zahlreicher Wiener Tageszeitungen am 12. November 1917. Was war geschehen? Kaiser Karl hatte zwei Tage zuvor eine Inspektionsreise an der italienischen Front unternommen, wobei die Autokolonne gezwungen gewesen war, einen Hochwasser führenden Nebenfluss des Isonzo, den Torrente „Torre“, zu durchqueren. […]" 

For the full article see: https://habsmon.hypotheses.org/544

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Please head over to the SHGAPE Blog to read our latest blog post, "Britain, the United States, and the Danish West Indies, 1916-17" by Dr. Ben Markham. 

ENDELL STREET: Nursing in WWI's unique women-run hospital (virtual event)

Taking place online, 3 June 2020, 5.30 – 6.30pm

by Shannon Bontrager (apologies for cross posting)

Shannon Bontrager, Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2020). https://t.e2ma.net/webview/7c59hc/8ae525d39bd4c67b1ebd2ecdb3446e31

Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/JnRnLwLA7Yk

I am pleased to announce the publication of my book, Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019) 328 PAGES. Cloth ISBN: 9781503610026  Paper ISBN: 9781503610743   Digital ISBN: 9781503610750  For further information, please see https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31378

What did it mean to be faithful during the First World War? How did colonial soldiers manage their conflicting devotions?

Kate Imy, Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army (Stanford University Press, 2019) https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31378

What did it mean to be faithful during the First World War? How did colonial soldiers navigate their conflicting devotions?

Call for Papers: Women, Gender Roles and Humanitarian Aid in the Greater War (1912-1925) 24-25 June 2020, University Foundation (Brussels)

Robert Lincoln O’Connell (1888-1972), a World War I Connecticut army engineer of Irish-Catholic heritage, was the subject of two of my previous blog posts.