World War One

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(2 votes) All Quiet on the Western Front - Review

All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Marie Remarque, Grossett & Dunlap, 1929. Many are the students who, upon the reception of their high school reading list, let out a moan of dismay as they Read more...

(2 votes) The Hell Hound of Mons

The French author Albert Dauzat told a fascinating legend that emerged from World War One in a book that was published two years after the Great War. Read more...

(1 vote) A Submarine Haunting

In Germany a submarine was called an U-boat, or "Unterseeboot". At the outbreak of World War One, Germany had 33 of them. Read more...

(1 vote) Do Not Approach!... The Creatures of the HellFire Corner

1. Foreigner, do not approach the small building in the remote part of this large hospital. The only people to whom access is not denied, are six carefully selected doctors and about twenty nurses. He Read more...

(1 vote) Wilfred Owen, a Poet of the Great War

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (1893-1918) was an English poet and soldier. He is regarded by many as the leading poet of "the Great War". Read more...

(1 vote) Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel

My true name is Isabel Scharpeneel, but my Ghostwriter calls me ‘Isabel Shrapnel', and that's how I spell my name: ‘I-S-A-B-E-L-S-H-R-A-P-N-E-L'. ‘You've made a cute little mistake,' my father says. Read more...

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