Major Articles
    War in Alsace
Excerpted from A Good Idea of Hell: Letters of a Chasseur à Pied edited by Joshua Brown

    Foch 1915
Generalissimo in Waiting
Excerpted from Michael S. Neiberg's Foch: Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War

    Marraines de Guerre
God-Mothers for the Poilus
Excerpted from Margaret H. Darrow's French Women and the First World War

    The Champagne - September 1915
By War Correspondent E. Alexander Powell
Contributed by Tony Langley

    Catastrophe Within a Battle -
Explosion at Ft. Douaumont: May 8, 1916
Excerpted from Christina Holstein's Fort Douamumont, Verdun

    Beau Geste: Clemenceau, Wilson and the Fourteen Points
Contributed by Rob Hanks, PhD

    The Dreyfus Case and the French 75
A well kept secret: The military history of the Dreyfus Case reviewed by Gerard Demaison.

    Vauquois - Lost Village
Argonne Village Destroyed by Mining. Contributed by Elspeth Johnstone.

    Paris Goes to War
Sketches of Paris at the outbreak of the war. Contributed by Tony Langley.

    French Strategy and Doctrine: 1914
Major Article from 1998 Seminar Presenter Col. Robert A. Doughty of the US Military Academy

    Verdun's Voie Sacree: Myth and Reality
Major Article from Great War Society Member and Verdun Scholar Gerard Demaison

    Visions of Hell: The Trench Sketchbook and Diary of Jean Despujols
Major Article and Portfolio by Dana Kress of Centenary College with Elizabeth M. Weilbacher

    Emile Driant: First Hero of Verdun
Biographical Sketch from Christina Holstein

    Tirailleurs Senegalais: French African Riflemen on the Western Front
Major Article by Leonard Shurtleff

    The Poilu's Life: As Depicted by French Illustrators
Lighthearted and Sentimental Cartoons

    Visualizing Verdun
Photo Essay from Tony Langley

    Profits and Swindles
Excerpted from Capitalism at War: Industrial Policy & Bureacracy in France reviewed by Sal Compagno

    Portugal in the Great War
From Hugo Rodrigues of Sintra, Portugal


From Seminar 2003
    Recipe for Success -
How France Won the Battle of the Marne
From Col. Robert Doughty, USMA

    The Politics of French Military Leadership, 1914-1918
From Professor Pierre Miquel, The Sorbonne




Petain Decorates Troops
Gondrecourt, Meuse

Related Links
    The Marne Taxis
by Leon Loupy

    Verdun's Bayonet Trench


    Battle of Verdun [French Site]


     Guerre de 1914-1918 (In French)


     Images of the Great War in the Lorraine


     Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse


    Verdun Forts


    151st RIL


    Association 1914-1918


     Musee de L'Armee at the Invalides


     Museum of the Great War at Peronne







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