OPERATION ALBERICH, THE CAMPAIGN THAT INSPIRED SAM MENDES’ 1917 The WWI drama of Sam Mendes is based on the retreat of Operation Alberich, a German force named code. This is the real story of the maneuver that prolonged the war for one more brutal year. Is it a true story from 1917? Yes and no. The drama of the First […]
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Shot and blinded, a pigeon named Cher Ami continued her flight and saved 197 American soldiers at the end of World War I On October 4, 1918, it is the eve. Slowly but surely “The War to End All Wars” is ending. In Chatel Chéhéry in northeastern France, the Allied Forces were fighting against the Germans through the valley Already […]
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The Clumsy Assassination which Launched World War I The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire — in Sarajevo, Bosnia, set off World War I, or “the war to end all wars” as it was commonly termed at the time. The assassins were part of the secret black hand society which wanted the independence of Bosnia-Herzegovina […]
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German Ship Sunk During World War I Found Off Falkland Islands The wreck of one of World War I’s most famous German warships is located on the seafloor in the Falkland Islands, where it sunk more than 100 years ago in a battle with British warships. On 8 December 1914, the battle-cruiser Scharnhorst sunk, including German Adm. Maximilian Graf von […]
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