Nellie Bly and Edith Wharton report from the front lines. Henry Morgenthau Sr. Writing from Italy, Ernest Hemingway complains to his family about being wounded. While Wilson and Lodge fight over American sovereignty, Ezra Pound expresses his disillusionment and grief in verse. We also meet Floyd Gibbons, a Chicago Tribune crime reporter.
It sounded to me like some one had dropped a glass bottle into a porcelain bathtub. A barrel of whitewash tipped over and it seemed that everything in the world turned white.
Stepping into an operating theater with Mary Borden, the Chicago heiress who established hospitals in France and Belgium, the smell of blood and death almost leaps off the page. They lie on their backs on the stretchers and are pulled out of the ambulances as loaves of bread are pulled out of the oven.
We experiment with his bones, his muscles, his sinews, his blood. We dig into the yawning mouths of his wounds. Helpless openings, they let us into the secret places of his body. When the American Expeditionary Forces shipped off to Europe, so too did approximately 16, women. They worked as clerks, telephone operators, and nurses; they also ran canteens that served meals to soldiers and offered a respite from battle.
Of course, most women experienced the war stateside, where they tended victory gardens and worked to produce healthy meals from meager rations. They volunteered for the Red Cross and participated in Liberty Loan drives. In the Library of America volume, W. Du Bois, who, in the wake of Booker T. From the beginning, Du Bois saw the war as grounded in the colonial rivalries and aspirations of the European belligerents. Du Bois hoped that by supporting the American war effort and encouraging African-American patriotism, this tension could be reconciled.
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Making that statement here undermines the whole message of the article; if we're attempting to avoid future pointless warfare, we need to understand why people made poor decisions in the past and not simply chalk it up to stupidity or insanity. I used the word "notable" in describing the exceptions to the relatively peaceful trends of the period for a reason. The examples that some of you were correct in mentioning are exactly what I had in mind and why I qualified my statement that there were "notable exceptions.
But in comparison to the periods both before and after, the stretch of contained conflicts that were generally shorter in duration, more contained geographically, less deadly, less complex, and were fewer and farther between. In fact, in each century from the end of the Pax Romana through the end of the s and the Napoleonic Wars, wars were generally longer in duration, more widespread geographically, deadlier, more complex, and more numerous and frequent than in the period Indisputably, that period is among the most peaceful in Europen history, third only to the Pax Romana and the post-WWII international order.
Taking the long view, there is no question of the relative peace of , in spite of the "notable exceptions" you were not wrong to raise. Throughout the war, of course there were numerous, even many, individual tactical and strategic decisions that were wise and competent.
Notably, the Russians had impressively rebounded before the Czarist government was overthrown. The issues of insanity and stupidity very correctly overshadow these positive developments in a larger-picture sense, as, especially on the Western Front, the aggregate totality of the decisions made and the fact that so many failed actions were repeated with little variation in execution or results over not just a period of days, weeks, or months, but over years, means that despite individual acts that could be deemed competent or better at the time, the overall collections of tactics and strategies executed cannot be said to be only stupid or insane in hindsight.
Such was the sentiment at the time that of the major initial belligerents, not one set of leadership that entered the war was running the show when the curtain mercifully came down in As for the final day on the Western Front, the telegraph predated the American Civil War, so allowing almost six-additional hours of mostly unrestrained hostilities after the warring parties reached an armistice agreement—not a cease-fire, but if you check the history the Germans by 5AM had agreed to humiliating and clear capitulation—when it would hardly have taken anywhere near that long to notify all parties truly is the definition of callous madness.
Many of the men knew this at the time: many artillerymen deliberately aimed their shells to miss and the Germans who had Allied troops in their sites pleaded with them to stop, that the war was about to end, that they did not want to kill them.
I think that pretty much sums that up. I addressed that in the clause just before the quotation you used: "with just a few notable exceptions, there were no wars on the European continent from the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in to the outbreak of World War I in They had to be aggressive early. How could GB and France ask for peace when they lost so many men. What happened in Sarajevo in , where Germans incited Austrians to declare war, the breach of Belgian neutrality and many other episodes make it evident who began WW1.
Versailles was too soft on Germany. Crimean war was senseless too and more of a vengeful act upon Russia of the then grandson then president of France Napoleons grandson and stupid enough were the English who were just as unjust in most countries they ruled to join in instead of staying out of it altogether Christian people have a tendency to war with each other.
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