Behind Their Lines

Written at the time of the American Civil War, Emily Dickinson’s poem “ Success is counted sweetest ” describes the frustrated longing o...

Autumn Leaves, Millais Melancholy and beautiful, “The Leaf Burners” is one of my favorites of the lost poems of the First World War.  Th...

French and British women In 1916, following the death of her older brother, Lt. Gilbert Sackville (killed Dec. 16, 1915), Margaret Sac...

The war that began in August of 1914 was supposed to have been over by Christmas of that year.   By November of 1915, it was clear to nea...

It was called the bloodbath of Liege – the first battle of World War I, in which German troops invaded Belgium in early August of 1914 as...