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A magazine review of the classic American World War One novel, Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos.
This book is vivid, but not sentimental. It does not contain a description of a single battle. What it does describe is the transformation of minds and bodies under the stress of war.
Three Soldiers by Dos Passos (Current Opinion, 1921) Read More »
In the bad-old days of World War I, author Andreas Latzko (1876 – 1943) served as a line officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army. While at the front he was affected by the horrors of combat until he found that he had seen enough and chose to desert. Even before the war had ended he managed to create an anti-war novel and get it to press before the Armistice. Digitized here is the 1918 review of his book, Men In War
Disillusionment and an almost morbid sympathy with mental and physical suffering are outstanding features of the book.
‘Men in War” by Andreas Latzko (Current Opinion, 1918) Read More »
Israel Zangwill (1864 – 1926) was a member of the Jewish literary society in Britain; he was an prominent lecturer, journalist, novelist and playwright. Today, however, he is mostly remembered for his efforts on behalf of the Zionist movement to establish a Jewish homeland. The following is a luke-warm book review from 1916 covering his collection of essays about World War I, The War for the World
Israel Zangwill and the Great War (The North American Review, 1916) Read More »
In Three Soldiers, John Dos Passos exhibited the disillusionment of the soldiers in the field; The Last Mile by Frank Macallister exposes the disillusionment of the soldier come home. The reviewer remarked that both men had been bamboozled by Woodrow and company.
A look at What Price Glory? and Journey’s End and the new spirit that created these dramas.
When R.C. Sheriff, nearly ten years after the Armistice, sat down to write an easy play for the amateurs of his boat club, he seems to have had no fixed notion as to what a play ought to be. The script of Journey’s End shows a complete absence of strain…
Click here to read an additional article concerning Journeys End.
The W.W. I Plays of the Post-War Years (Stage Magazine, 1933) Read More »
Having studied the global power structure that came into place following the carnage of the First World War, British philosopher Bertrand Russel (1872 – 1970; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1950) was surprised to find that the most dominate nation left standing was not one of the European polities that had fought the war from start to finish – but rather the United States: a nation that had participated in only the last nineteen months of the war.
The Emergence of a New World Power (The New Republic, 1922) Read More »
The book review of Winston Churchill’s 1929 tome, The Aftermath:
All too frequently Mr. Churchill passes lightly over the story he alone can tell and repeats the stories that other men have told….[Yet] no one who wants to understand the world he lives in can afford to miss The Aftermath. Would that all contemporary statesmen were one-tenth as willing as Mr. Churchill to tell what they know.
More about Winston Churchill can be read here.
Read the thoughts of one W.W. I veteran who regrets having gone to war…
The World After W.W. I (The Bookman, 1929) Read More »
Attached is the 1922 book review of Robert Lansing’s (1864 – 1928) book, Big Four, and Others of the Peace Conference
shows us Clemenceau dominating the conference by sheer force of mind; Wilson outmaneuvered; Lloyd George clever, alert, but not very deep; and Orlando precise and lawyer like. This book confirms the popular belief that the general scheme of the treaty was worked out by the British and French delegations without material aid from the Americans. As a consequence, the American delegation lost prestige.
Wilson’s Secretary of State and the Versailles Treaty (Current Opinion, 1922) Read More »
Here is a very simple list of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points can be printed off of a PDF by clicking the title above.
Wilson’s Fourteen Points were ignored at Versailles and the United States withdrew it’s support for the historical conference in favor of two separate peace agreements made with Germany and Austria at a later date.
Click here to read more magazine articles about President Woodrow Wilson.
Read a 1936 article concerning Hitler’s Versailles Treaty violations.
The historian Henry Steele Commager ranked Woodrow Wilson at number 18 insofar as his impact on the American mind is concerned – click here to understand his reasoning…
Wilson’s Fourteen Points (Literary Digest, 1919) Read More »
A printable chart calculated in millions of U.S. dollars (evaluated prior to the 1934 value), which lays out the military spending as it increased between the years 1908 through 1913. The nations taken into account are Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan and the United States.
Numerous articles about military spending prior to W.W. II in this section…
Military Expenditures: 1908 – 1913 (Literary Digest, 1935) Read More »
