The topic is “Rekindling the Spirit: What Excites YOU About WW1.” During 2023 we will be hosting quarterly chats with different themes as a way to increase our touch points with WW1HA members. We invite you to participate in the WW1HA’s first Fireside Chat (via Zoom) at 8:00pm EST / 5:00pm PST on Saturday 11 March. “An original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century.President’s Quarterly Update-20 February 2023
“An original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century.” -Steve Gillon, resident historian, The History Channel
has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured” - Los Angeles Times His account of the tragic folly of Gallipoli is masterful. “Meyer’s sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War: four long years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until 1914 had dominated the globe. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. It will earn generations of admirers.” -The Washington Times is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world.
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