Articles on the causes of World War One, its battles, and its outcomes
Articles on the causes of World War One, its battles, and its outcomes
World War 1 inflicted hitherto unseen violence on Europe and entangled the entire planet in the conflict—the first time a war was so far reaching. It broke empires, launched new nations onto the international stage, and caused humanity to question its innate goodness. Scroll down to learn about the causes…
The following article on the Meuse-Argonne Offensive is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The American Expeditionary Force not only had vigor and tenacity, it was building mass and…
The following article on the Battle of Cantigny is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It was one thing for Congress to declare war—which it did on 6 April…
The following article on the Battle of Chateau-Thierry is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. With the arrival of the U.S. marines, and their support of the beleaguered…
The following article on the Battle of Belleau Wood is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In the early stages of World War I, Germany was obsessed with knocking…
The following article on the end of World War I is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Russian sideshow was but one part of America’s introduction to…
The following article is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. All four sons of former president Theodore Roosevelt served in the Great War. One, the youngest son, Quentin (1897-1918),…
The following article is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. When Sir Edward Grey, Britain’s foreign secretary, received word that Germany had declared war on France, he was…
The following article is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Harry Truman was the only American president to have seen action in World War I. Franklin Roosevelt was…
The following article on what started WW1 is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III's The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. At first it all seemed very far away. The possibility of a Great War…
Scott Michael Rank, Ph.D., is the editor of History on the Net and host of the History Unplugged podcast. A historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, he is a publisher of popular history, a podcaster, and online course creator.
