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Food and Menu in The Frontline and in Restaurants in Homeland – What did Civilians and Soldiers Consume During the Great War?

Almatourism, 2016
It is widely accepted that experiences become memorable when offer interactivity and involve all the senses.  Still, it is challengig to provide such memorable experiences at war heritage sites or commemorative events.
Balázs Füreder
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The Sick Man’s Last Fight: The Role of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War [PDF]

, 2009
The Great War in 1914 to 1918 destroyed mighty empires, and created nations from their ashes. Both the Allied and Central Powers had been dominated by powerful empires. The Ottoman Empire, established by the Turks was at one point the largest empire in
Crouse, Henry A
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Harbingers of dissolution? Grain prices, borders and nationalism in the Habsburg economy before the First World War [PDF]

This paper explores the pre-First World War Austro-Hungarian economy as a prominent case where growing conflict between various ethnic and national groups within an empire might have contributed to the emergence of internal borders and even its eventual ...
Schulze, Max-Stephan, Wolf, Nikolaus
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Czech Soldiers during the Great War (1914–1918) [PDF]

Токови историје, 2016
The goal of this article is to objectively assess the conduct of Czech soldiers during the First World War. In the past, this issue was, for various ideological reasons, greatly oversimpliϐied.
Ladislav HLADKÝ
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Side-Steppers and Original-Firsts: The Overseas Chevron Controversy and Canadian Identity in the Great War [PDF]

, 2012
Badges of rank, qualification, and achievement can play significant, it not always explicit, roles in military culture. In late 1917 the British War Office instituted a new award, overseas service chevrons, to recognize service abroad for all ranks and ...
Iarocci, Andrew
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Russia’s Real National Income: The Great War, Civil War, and Recovery, 1913 to 1928 [PDF]

We are working towards filling the last remaining gap in the historical national accounts of Russia and the USSR in the twentieth century. The gap includes the GreatWar (1914 to 1917), the Bolshevik Revolution, the CivilWar andWar Communism (1918 to 1921)
Andrei Markevich, Mark Harrison
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Coal: A Significant Factor in Germany’s Defeat in World War I [PDF]

, 2018
More than a hundred years have passed since the outbreak of the World War I, but there are still fundamental gaps in our understanding of the conflict.
Zeller, Joseph
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Saving Grace on Feathered Wings: Homing Pigeons in the First World War [PDF]

, 2017
Soldiers of the First World War came in all shapes and sizes. The humble homing pigeon is one of the more unique and critical examples of such. They served in the armed forces of both the Allies and the Central Powers.
Katzung Hokanson, Brandon R.
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“The Battle-Fortune of Marshal Hindenburg is not Bound up with the Possession of a Hill”: The Germans and Vimy Ridge, April 1917 [PDF]

, 2016
On 9 April 1917 four Canadian divisions and one British division of 170,000 men broke through the “Vimy Group” of German Sixth Army of some 40,000 men. By late afternoon, the Germans had been driven off the Ridge. That day, as Brigadier-General Alexander
Herwig, Holger
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