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Molly and the Hello Girls: a historical romance set in World War I
My latest release, a wholesome historical romance set in World War I, just released July 11. Molly is the story of an American Expeditionary Forces Signal Corps switchboard operator (also known as a Hello Girl) and [...]
Artwork by WWI soldiers found in trunk 100 years later
Artwork penned by First World War soldiers as a method to cope with PTSD have been discovered in a locked trunk belonging to a 1917 nurse - 107 years on. The fascinating album kept by [...]
Battles, Arson, and Strawberry Jam: An Interview With Lloyd Charles Maynard Of Michigan’s WWI “Polar Bears” in Russia
In the summer of 1918, Lloyd Charles Maynard was expecting to be sent to France. He was all packed and prepared when he found out that he was about to become one of Michigan’s Polar [...]
The Choctaw Code Talkers, the Ideal American Doughboy, and the Adventure of a Lifetime
A few months following a phone call with a fellow Choctaw researcher, I found myself standing in a French airport, a bit shocked and certainly in awe. I had never imagined the whirlwind that would [...]
A Forgotten Tragedy of the Great War: The Sinking of RMS Leinster
The mail ship and ferry RMS Leinster was sunk 10 October 1918 in the Irish Sea with little over a month left in the Great War. The ship was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-123 shortly after [...]
The Llandovery Castle Massacre — How a Little-Known Attack on a WWI Hospital Ship Would Forever Change War Crime Prosecutions
“In the 1940s, Allied prosecutors preparing for a new round of war crimes trials revisited the Llandovery Castle decision.” ON THE EVENING of June 27, 1918, the Canadian hospital ship Llandovery Castle was heading from Halifax to [...]
Remembering a WWI Veteran: From Major to Major General in 16 Months: John L. Hines
In 2000, Roads to the Great War Editor/Publisher Michael Hanlon was invited to be a historical consultant for the U.S. Postal Service on a series of commemorative stamps honoring Distinguished American Soldiers. Alvin York and [...]
On July 8, 1918, American Red Cross driver Ernest Hemingway is wounded in World War
Author's wartime experiences helped shape his famous early novel 'A Farewell to Arms' On this date in history, July 8, 1918, the iconic novelist Ernest Hemingway, then an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red [...]
Was the U.S. Army Really the “Decisive” Force in World War I?
In his 2001 book The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I, the American Professor John Mosier, who teaches English at Loyola University in New Orleans, makes the claim that [...]
