... 11/11/1918, the end of the Great War - WWI needs to be remembered, in itself. That war seems to have a special place in the disasters ... idea of what human beings are was different - how we represented ourselves was different. And the end of the war - euphoric as it may have been on November 11, 1918 - didn't ... closer to the deep pessimism of World War One films... I'm rambling a bit. I' ...

Mark Levitch. Panthéon de la Guerre: Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. 224 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-1678-6. Reviewed by Martha Hanna Published on H-War (July, 2009) Commissioned by Janet G. Valentine A Pantheon Co-opted In Panthéon de la Guerre Mark Levitch tells a fascinating tale of artistic vision, cultural politics,

... infection. Two facts about head injuries during the First World War are salient. First, because of the nature of trench warfare, the heads ... neurological and behavioral deficits. During the Great War, most psychiatrists believed that war does not create any special kind ... psychiatry, neuroscience, and psychology. The hell of the First World War ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day ...

... . He needs to overhaul the nation's economy. He is being pressured to escalate the Afghanistan War while the streets of Iraq still burn. His choice is as clear as President Johnson's was. The results if he chooses war will be the same. We never got to know what the Great Society would have become if Johnson had said 'No' to war. Maybe this time we ...

... Month in 1918. This became known as Armistice Day, and later as Veteran’s Day. For many, especially Americans, World War I has been practically forgotten as it is overshadowed by WWII in history classes, but WWI had a great impact on the 20th century and that impact lingers to this day. The nation of Iraq was created in the ...

... Sarah's new book has become the battle standard for both sides in the GOP civil war that continues to rage on. Palin's supporters say the book reveals how uncommitted and ideologically ... appeared. Isn't it lovely that Sarah Palin has a nice husband and kids and she has a great job too? Women have been patted on the head like that for years. It does not express more profound respect. ...

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... contradictions” or fell apart by accident, as the result of a tragically accidental war, is actually hard to say. There are good arguments for both of these ideas. And that takes us ts back to ... Dreadnought, which are nominally about the build-up to and prosecution of the naval part of the Great War, but which contain extensive and fascinating analyses of the general background of the war. ...

... is a great blog post up at Samurai Dave about the end of the Great War. It has been 90 years since the end of that war, which was supposed to end all wars. The war that ... didn't end until 1945, and even then, you have to be really optimistic to think that the problems that sparked the original war in 1911 were without consequences that last to this day. Two summers ago, I had the chance to ...

... war. For the nature of conflict at the front brought on a particular fatalism, perhaps unique to this War. The soldiers who went abroad to serve fully expected to fight, and most ... home, light enough not to blight their lives but harsh enough to preclude any further participation in the war. None of the men that I have met in the past or during the research for this book ever expected to be taken ...