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The First World War’s Forgotten Front

With the notable exception of Gallipoli-fixed Australians and New Zealanders, the focal point of the English-speaking world’s historical memory of the First World War is the Western Front, the cauldron that consumed most of its war dead. There’s very little room in that memory for even the Eastern Front… (more…)

Prof. Palmer March 28, 2016January 27, 2017 Austria-Hungary, Italy, The War in the News
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