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Triple Entente France Russia Great Britain. Triple Alliance Germany Austria Italy. The Alliance System. June 1914. Germany’s view of the Europe. Another German view of Europe. The Allies France Russia Great Britain Italy.
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Triple Entente France Russia Great Britain Triple Alliance Germany Austria Italy The Alliance System June 1914
The Allies France Russia Great Britain Italy The Central Powers Germany Austrian Empire Ottoman Empire The Belligerents 1915
Guns of August War is the unfolding of miscalculations Barbara Tuchman
General von Schlieffen General von Moltke General von Falkenhayn Germany General Staff General Ludendorf General von Hindenberg
General Foch General Gallieni General Joffre French army General Petain General Nivelle
If I should die, think only this of me. That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed: A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware; Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England’s breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart,all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. Rupert Brooke, 1887-1915
Brooke actually saw little combat during the war; he contracted blood-poisoning from a small neglected injury and died in April 1915, in the Aegean
Appointed Chief of Staff in 1911 He commanded the BEF in 1914 After Mons, he became pessimistic about the war He resigned in December 1915 and and was replaced by General Haig General French
He took command of the BEF in December 1915 Under extreme pressure by the French to relieve pressure on Verdun, he led the BEF in the Battle of the Somme, July-Nov. 1916 General Haig
“Good-morning; good-morning!” the General said When we met him last week on our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of ‘em dead, And we’re cursing his staff for incompetent swine. “He’s a cheery old card,” grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both by his plan of attack. Siegfried Sassoon
He quickly developed the nickname 'Mad Jack' for his fearless courage on the Western Front, often volunteering to lead night raids. Sassoon was awarded the Military Cross in June 1916 for assisting a wounded man back to British lines while under fire. After being wounded in April 1917 Sassoon was sent back to England for recuperation. Sassoon had meanwhile developed increasingly angry feelings concerning the conduct of the war. This led him to publish, in The Times, a letter announcing his view that the war was being deliberately and unnecessarily prolonged by the authorities. Sassoon narrowly avoided punishment by courts martial via the swift assistance of Robert Graves, who convinced the military review board (with Sassoon's reluctant consent) that Sassoon was suffering from shell shock.
