Why are we still haunted by WWI?
Sandra Martin of the Globe and Mail asked this question of Margaret MacMillan in Saturday’s newspaper. MacMillan is the author of the widely praised and very successful book Paris 1919:
September 9, 2013
Sandra Martin of the Globe and Mail asked this question of Margaret MacMillan in Saturday’s newspaper. MacMillan is the author of the widely praised and very successful book Paris 1919:
November 11, 1918, a date that lives on commemorating the end of that ‘great war’ also known as the war to end all wars – except it didn’t. My grandfather
The scope of WWI is vast and multi-dimensional. Not being a student of history, when I first began writing, I flailed about for a long time seeking ways to piece
One of the WWI research sources I found, courtesy of Project Gutenberg, is Frederick George Scott’s account of WWI. Scott was senior chaplain for the 1st Canadian Division and his
Two years ago, when I had the opportunity to visit the memorial dedicated to one of Canada’s most significant battles of WWI, I bought a book titled Letters of Agar Adamson.
Some time ago I discovered Mildred Aldrich writing about WWI through letters to friends and family at home. One collection is called A Hilltop on the Marne, others are On
I had never read Edith Wharton until I stumbled upon her collection of articles Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort available online from Project Gutenberg. Having moved to Paris prior to WWI, Wharton
Having spent much of the past four weeks analyzing and reporting on my historical fiction survey, I thought it time to offer something different. This post originally appeared in my
During WWI, official war diaries were a matter of standard practice, recording day by day the events that occupied millions of men. The following post originally occurred in One Writer’s
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
