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100 year WWI anniversary
Post by Henry Brown   » Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:39 am

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Just thought I would mention that today marks 100 years since the start of World War I.
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Re: 100 year WWI anniversary
Post by Hutch   » Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:51 am

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Henry Brown wrote:Just thought I would mention that today marks 100 years since the start of World War I.


Thanks Henry. Reminds me to pull "The Guns of August" by barbara Tuchman off my shelf and give it another read. As should you all (and what do you mean you haven't got it! Get thee to Amazon, churls, or to your local library!)

Another (more recent) read about the start and initial months of the War is Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings, which is also excellent and somewhat more wide-ranging than Tuchman's book.
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Re: 100 year WWI anniversary
Post by Henry Brown   » Mon Aug 04, 2014 2:35 pm

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Actually I should have been more specific earlier. Today marks the 100 year mark for the German invasion of Belgium. There had been sporadic fighting for about a week earlier. But I regard this as the true point of no return.
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Re: 100 year WWI anniversary
Post by Spacekiwi   » Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:05 pm

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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Re: 100 year WWI anniversary
Post by HB of CJ   » Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:45 pm

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Say what some might about European politics, it has been kinda very successful keeping the peace since 1945; the Iron Curtain and the 1956 uprising notwithstanding, plus the nasty Balkans stuff. Hey; anybody who knows European history lots better than me, is this about the longest Europe has gone in time without any major shoot-um-ups? HB of CJ (old coot) Cm.
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Re: 100 year WWI anniversary
Post by Arol   » Wed Aug 06, 2014 8:36 am

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HB of CJ wrote:Say what some might about European politics, it has been kinda very successful keeping the peace since 1945; the Iron Curtain and the 1956 uprising notwithstanding, plus the nasty Balkans stuff. Hey; anybody who knows European history lots better than me, is this about the longest Europe has gone in time without any major shoot-um-ups? HB of CJ (old coot) Cm.

It may just be a side result of the MAD ( Mutual Assured Destruction) doctrine!
I seriously doubt that people have gotten wiser, just more wary.
The specter of a couple of thousand thermo nuclear bombs hanging over your head, would tend to make one think twice about engaging in any major confrontation.
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Re: 100 year WWI anniversary
Post by pokermind   » Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:07 pm

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Kasier Wilhelm II's take on the start of WW I written to be sent to President Wilson in 1914 in his own hand from this 1917 book:

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Will continue with the next 3 pages in another post. You can't get closer to the thoughts of one of the principals than this!

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Re: 100 year WWI anniversary
Post by pokermind   » Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:19 pm

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Kaiser Bill continued:

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Enjoy, Poker
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Re: 100 year WWI anniversary
Post by namelessfly   » Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:37 pm

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I would greatly appreciate it if Pokermind could transcribe these hand written notes for me.
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Re: 100 year WWI anniversary
Post by namelessfly   » Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:41 pm

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Certainly WW-1 is a lesson on the dangers of entangling alliances. Serbia and the Austro-Hungarian empire might have been more reasonable if they had not gene emboldened by a web of entangling alliances. If war had not been averted, it would have been localized.

Of course the underlying trigger was The Pig War.
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