Category Archives: Resources

German snipers training in Russia

Posted on February 3, 2015 by George Vascik, Historian

Rob Schäfer has posted an interesting picture of German snipers training in the East. #WW1 German snipers training in Russia (1915) ..hard and experienced faces. #history pic.twitter.com/trlXZRjIFj — Rob Schaefer (@GerMilHistory) February 2, 2015

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new from digital 1418

Posted on January 8, 2015 by George Vascik, Historian

Otto Vervaart continues to provide excellent source materials for students of the First World War. He has recently posted four new resources that I have added this site: Wartime Canada: “an educational resource for teaching the history of Canada during … Continue reading →

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Top secret MI5 files of First World War go online

Posted on April 19, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/924.htm Complete with a very fetching picture of Mata Hari on the portal page. Other highlights include Edith Cavell and Sidney George Reilly, the “Ace of Spies”. If you are interested in British intelligence history, this is an amazing resource. Having watched … Continue reading →

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Enough to make a historian dizzy!

Posted on April 19, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

I have spent many enjoyable hours at the Hoover Institution Library. I swear, when I saw this enormous stack of papers, I knew that I had to post the Tweet. First shipment of materials arrives at Hoover War Library, 1920 … Continue reading →

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Russian Military Historical Archives digitized

Posted on April 19, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

All 300,000+ Russian World War I documents have been made available online: http://t.co/j2l5aE9GSX via @MoscowTimes #russia #history #WWI — The View East (@thevieweast) April 19, 2014 This is great news, but the site that I accessed is in Russian without … Continue reading →

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New Zealand on the Western Front

Posted on March 27, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

Here is an excellent article by Brian Lockstone on New Zealand’s participation on the Western Front. European was the third – and largest – theater in which NZ forces saw action during the Great War. According to Lockstone, New Zealand’s population at … Continue reading →

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Home Front Vienna

Posted on March 26, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

This from Centenary News: Exhibition: ‘World War I in Vienna – City Life in Photography and Graphic Art’ Posted on centenarynews.com on 24 March 2014 A new exhibition at the Wien Museum (Vienna Museum) in Austria will explore the impact of the First World … Continue reading →

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Newspaper resources

Posted on March 23, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

In an earlier post, I linked to sets of newspapers put online by mission centenaire, and expressed the wish that there were similar collections in other languages. So I turned to social media a received this reply: @GeorgeVascik have a … Continue reading →

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You need to see the pictures in this article

Posted on March 23, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

French battlefield archeologists, excavating a trench site in eastern France in the path of a road project, have uncovered the perfectly preserved bodies of 21 German soldiers. The trench in which the soldiers were entombed was covered over with mud … Continue reading →

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Resource for the Battle of the Marne

Posted on March 23, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

Mission cententaire has posted a marvelous collection of newspapers from the Bibliotheque nationale de France on the Battle of the Marne. I am posting it here as a resource for students who want to complete an extension. If you chose … Continue reading →

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The BBC firewall

Posted on March 22, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

“Auntie Beeb, take down this wall!” So Ronald Reagan would have said if he were putting together a course on the Great War, the the BBC kept material that could be an important component of the class behind its firewall. … Continue reading →

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New resources from digital1418

Posted on March 18, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

I have just uploaded a set of invaluable resources on to this site form digital1418, a website maintained by Otto Vervaart. You can find them on this site in the right viewing pane under “Great War Resources”. You can link to … Continue reading →

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I have added an Australian website

Posted on March 12, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

I have just added the Queensland’s World War 1 Centenary website to my “Great War Websites” list. The site is maintained by the State Library of Queensland. I became aware of the site via Twitter. The cause for the Tweet … Continue reading →

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Herfried Münkler, Gerd Krumeich, and Sönke Neitzel debate the causes of the Great War

Posted on March 12, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

This is fun: #history German debate. Political scientist Herfried Münkler+historians Gerd Krumeich & Sönke Neitzel. Causes of #WW1 http://t.co/bkhOPrlGte — Rob Schaefer (@GerMilHistory) March 11, 2014 I’ll have more on this debate tomorrow after I’ve had a chance to rest … Continue reading →

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A Quiet Corner in Sarajevo

Posted on March 9, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

Thanks to Lee Alley for Tweeting this article from  Intelligent Life magazine put out by the Economist. .@TurkeyinWW1 @GilesMacDonogh Excellent article in @intlifemag about Gavrilo Princip, Sarajevo, Bosnians & Serbs: http://t.co/dN9oPtHcEP — Lee Alley (@lee_alley) March 9, 2014 It contains … Continue reading →

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“37 Days”

Posted on March 7, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

This looks amazing. I have inserted a screen shot from the BBC website. 37 Days is a drama/reenactment of the period between the assassination in Sarajevo and the British declaration of war. Unfortunately, I am not able to open any … Continue reading →

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Oxford Spring School on British War Poets

Posted on February 28, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

The English Faculty of the University of Oxford will be presenting a “spring school” on British war poets April 3-5, 2014. No one reading this post is going to make it, but you really should look at their website and … Continue reading →

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Belgian World War One exhibition

Posted on February 28, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

A major exhibition on the First World War has opened in Brussels.  14-18, It’s Our History! will run until April 26, 1915. The exhibition focuses on both the Belgian and European dimensions of the First World War and has been … Continue reading →

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BBC newsletter

Posted on February 27, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

Was Britain right to fight in World War One? In August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany. In the four years that followed, millions died, in scenes of destruction the like of which the world had never seen before. Some, … Continue reading →

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Ernst Jünger’s letters home

Posted on February 26, 2014 by George Vascik, Historian

Ernst Jünger’s letter to his family while he served at the front are now available. Edited by Heimo Schwilk, Feldpostbriefe an die Familie 1915-1918 the collection consists of 72 letters, postcards, and telegrams to his parents and his brother Friedrich Georg, … Continue reading →

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