Behind Their Lines

Missouri Digital Heritage, Springfield Greene County Public Library  In her essay “A stupid mule is still smarter than a good horse, or a ba...

Kenneth MacLeish, c. 1917 On October 14, 1918, American aviator Kenneth MacLeish, attached to British Squadron 213, was on patrol over Belgi...

Jeffery Day Miles Jeffery Day was one of the best-known poets in the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War. His war poems were...

  It’s not coincidental that one of my favorite words is serendipity, “the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not...

May Wedderburn Cannan In her autobiography Grey Ghosts and Voices , May Wedderburn Cannan writes, The Census for 1921 had found there was in...

AEF soldier of the 319th  In October of 1918, the First World War was entering its fifth year and the influenza pandemic was killing millio...

Royal Irish Rifle Troops at the Somme, July 1, 1916 We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his...