Latvian riflemen, WW1, 1916

It has literally taken me a year and change to write this piece, but my new Modern Library essay on Ford Madox Ford's PARADE'S END has finally dropped! (Spoiler alert: I was not a fan and strongly advise promising youth all around the world to AVOID this obnoxious mansplainer. But hey I read the book -- TWICE! -- so you kids wouldn't have to!)

https://www.edrants.com/parades-end-modern-library-57/

#books #modernlibrary #fordmadoxford #ww1

Parade’s End (Modern Library #57) - Reluctant Habits

Ford Madox Ford's introspective tetralogy has been held up as a major work of literature for decades, but Ford's leaden dialogue and one-note characters are embarrassingly regressive in the 21st century.

Reluctant Habits
British anti-aircraft battery engages a German Zeppelin, WW1 (Peter Dunn)
Tales of love and war. Lest we forget their sacrifices.
Lovers torn apart by the Great War mybook.to/DandelionClock.
The women and children of Auschwitz mybook.to/TouchingtheW... The men and women of the French resistance mybook.to/UnderEnemySk... 'Outstanding storyteller' #WW1 #WW2 #VEDay

My most controversial take among History Channel Men is that the US really no reason entering WWI and in fact probably should not have but they just desired spreading their influence around the world and having a say in the future of Europe which they otherwise had no right to.

#boomers #history #ww1 #wwi

Kalmyk soldier of Tsarist Russia riding a Bactrian Camel, Ukraine, WW1, 1915

Do you know of the story of the infamous Great War truce? The Allies and the Axis held a truce on Christmas day in 1914 for a game of football.

Well, today I saw the whistle that's started it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

#Truce #WW1 #Whistle #FootballTruce