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Restored World War I Photos Reveal the Horror and Humor of Life on the Western Front https://petapixel.com/2025/11/17/restored-world-war-i-photos-reveal-the-horror-and-humor-of-life-on-the-western-front/ #firstworldwar #veteransday #remastered #worldwari #Features #restored #Analog #ww1

The Paris Peace Conference, held from January 1919 to January 1920 and attended by the victorious Allied powers, debated and agreed the terms of the peace settlement that formally ended the First World War (1914-18). #History #FirstWorldWar #Peace #TreatyOfNeuilly #TreatyOfSevres #TreatyOfTrianon #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-25118-en/

Haunting Remastered Aerial Footage Reveals the Devastating Aftermath of World War I https://petapixel.com/2025/11/13/haunting-remastered-aerial-footage-reveals-the-devastating-aftermath-of-world-war-i/ #colorizedhistory #firstworldwar #worldwarone #remastered #colorized #worldwari #Features

Appropriate reading for #ArmisticeDay : former RAF officer turned author, John Nichol, examines the trauma from the unbelievable losses sustained during The Great War, & the story of The Unknown Warrior (pub Simon & Schuster)

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#Remembrance #books #livres #history #histoire #WWI #FirstWorldWar #PremiereGuerreMondiale #History #Histoire #TheUnknownWarrior #JohnNichol #bookstodon

the cover for The Unknown Warrior by John Nichol, showing a WWI "Tommy", his back to us, contemplating a poppy-covered grave as the sun sets

The armistice that ended the First World War (1914-18) on the Western Front was signed between Germany and the Allies on 11 November 1918. #History #Armistice #FirstWorldWar #ImperialGermany #KaiserWilhelmII #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2833-en/

Remembrance Sunday: Honouring Kenya's forgotten World War soldiers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2e89eqnvo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

How refreshing to read a British medium story about the East African past that does not focus on the odious "Happy Valley" set!

#History #Africa #EastAfricanRifles #CommonwealthWarGravesCommision #Kenya #Uganda #Tanzania #FirstWorldWar #SecondWorldWar #WW1 #WW2 #BritishEmpire #Remembrance Sunday

I am proud to announce the publication of the article I wrote (in English) with the Latvian historian Klāvs Zariņš on the German secret police and security policy in the occupied Baltic countries (under the Ober Ost occupation regime) during the First World War.
https://www.karamuzejs.lv/lkm/muzeja-xxi-gadagramata
#FirstWorldWar #Latvia #Lithuania #secretpolice #militaryoccupation #WW1

The First World War (1914-18) was the first truly global conflict and the first to be fully mechanised. #History #Warfare #Eyewitness #FirstWorldWar #TrenchWarfare #WesternFront #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2832-en/

Signed hardbacks and a message in a bottle

First, a bit of news: I have some hardbacks left over from We Have Ways Fest, so I’m selling signed copies in my shop, at the same price as the standard hardback. Message in a bottle This is an amazing news story. In 1916, two Australian soldiers on a troop ship wrote letters to relatives, put them in a bottle, and threw it overboard. The bottle was found by a family collecting rubbish on the beach last month. The family traced a great-nephew of one soldier, and the great-granddaughters […]

https://russellphillips.uk/signed-hardbacks-and-a-message-in-a-bottle/

An old bottle with "CHWEPPES" embossed on it and some pieces of paper inside the bottle.

The Spanish flu (so-named because the Spanish press openly reported on the outbreak while other World War I belligerents suppressed the news) broke out in March 1918 at Camp Funston, an army camp in Kansas, and struck young, healthy adults with greater ferocity than any other demographic group. #History #1918FluPandemic #FirstWorldWar #Flu #Influenza #MedicalHistory #Medicine #Pandemic #SpanishFlu #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-25348-en/

Japanese Battleship Settsu https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/japanese-battleship-settsu/ #Battleship, #BattleshipSettsu, #BattleshipSettsu, #FirstWorldWar, #FirstWorldWar, #ImperialJapaneseNavy, #ImperialJapaneseNavy, #JapaneseBattleship, #JapaneseBattleship, #Naval, #Navy, #Settsu, #WorldWar1, #WorldWarOne, #Worldwar1, #Worldwarone, #WW1, #WWI

German Pre-Dreadnought Battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein. Served at Jutland and to the end of the Second World War.
https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/german-pre-dreadnought-battleship-sms-schleswig-holstein/ #FirstWorldWar #GermanNavy #HighSeasFleet #ImperialGermanNavy #KaiserlicheMarine #maritimehistory #naval #NavalHistory #Navy #Predreadnought #SMSSchleswigHolstein #WorldWarOne

SMS Schleswig-Holstein was the fifth and final ship of the Deutschland-class (along with her sisters Deutschland, Pommern, Schlesien, and Hannover), built at the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel. She was laid down in 1905, launched in December 1906, and commissioned in July 1908. Like her sisters, she was a pre-dreadnought completed in the dreadnought era, but she became one of the most famous German warships due to her role in starting the Second World War.

She carried the same armament and protection as the other ships of her class, with four 28 cm (11 in) SK L/40 guns, a secondary battery of fourteen 17 cm (6.7 in) guns, lighter weapons, and six submerged torpedo tubes. Her armour protection and speed were virtually identical to Schlesien.

Before 1914, Schleswig-Holstein served in training cruises and fleet manoeuvres. In the First World War, she was active with II Battle Squadron in the North Sea and Baltic but, like her sisters, saw little heavy action. After the war, she was one of the few battleships Germany was allowed to keep under the Treaty of Versailles.

Her most famous moment came on 1 September 1939. While officially on a courtesy visit to Danzig (Gdańsk), she opened fire on the Polish garrison at Westerplatte at 04:47 in the morning, firing the first shots of the Second World War

The trench warfare of the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18) involved soldiers living and dying in an awful mix of mud, filth, and barbed wire. #History #FirstWorldWar #HindenburgLine #TrenchWarfare #WesternFront #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2820-en/

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914) in the Balkans in the summer of 1914 set off a chain of events that led to the First World War (1914-18). #History #Assassination #Balkans #BalkansCrisis #Bosnia #FirstWorldWar #JulyCrisis #Sarajevo #Serbia #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2814-en/

HMS Sir John Moore was one of eight Lord Clive-class monitors built for the Royal Navy in 1915 to conduct shore bombardments during the First World War. The ship was assigned to the Dover Patrol for the duration of the war and was sold for scrap in 1921. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/british-monitor-hms-sir-john-moore/ #FirstWorldWar #HMSSirJohnMoore #maritimehistory #monitor #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy #WorldWarOne #WW1 #WWI

The pre-First World War arms race between Britain and Germany was fuelled by Britain's desire to protect its empire, Germany's desire to build an empire, and a general atmosphere of suspicion amongst the great powers, which led to the formation of two opposing alliance blocs. #History #ArmsRace #Dreadnought #FirstWorldWar #Germany #GreatBritain #RoyalNavy #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2812-en/

German Pre-Dreadnought Battleship SMS Schlesien
https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/german-pre-dreadnought-battleship-sms-schlesien/ #battleship #FirstWorldWar #GermanNavy #HighSeasFleet #ImperialGermanNavy #KaiserlicheMarine #maritimehistory #naval #NavalHistory #Navy #Predreadnought #SMSSchlesien #WorldWarOne #WW1

SMS Schlesien was the fourth ship of the Deutschland-class of pre-dreadnought battleships (along with her sisters Deutschland, Schleswig-Holstein, Pommern, and Hannover), built at the Schichau-Werke shipyard in Danzig. She was laid down in 1904, launched in May 1906, and commissioned in May 1908. Like her sisters, she was already outdated on completion due to the commissioning of HMS Dreadnought in 1906. Nonetheless, she had a long career that extended from the Kaiserliche Marine through the Reichsmarine and into the Kriegsmarine, surviving into the Second World War.

During peacetime before 1914, Schlesien operated with the fleet in training exercises, cruises, and manoeuvres, often representing Germany abroad. When the First World War began, she was assigned to II Battle Squadron with her sisters. She took part in patrols and fleet sorties in the North Sea and saw minor action at the Battle of Jutland, where a near miss killed one sailor and wounded another. By 1917, she was relegated to secondary duties as the High Seas Fleet prioritised dreadnoughts. After the war, Schlesien was one of the few battleships Germany was permitted to retain under the Treaty of Versailles.

In 1944–45, Schlesien was pressed into service as a support ship for shore bombardment and training in the final desperate months of the war. She was heavily damaged by a British air-dropped naval mine in May 1945 off Swinemünde. Scuttled in shallow water, her wreck was scrapped after the war.

The Moroccan Crises were two international incidents, the first in 1905-6 and the second in 1911, when Imperial Germany, eager to expand its empire, threatened France's presence in Morocco. #History #MoroccanCrises #Britain #AgadirConference #AgadirCrisis #FirstWorldWar #France #ImperialGermany #KaiserWilhelmII #Morocco #Russia #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-25231-en/

SMS Pommern was the second ship of the Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought battleships of the Imperial German Navy. Pommern was already obsolete when completed, as HMS Dreadnought had entered service in 1906 and rendered earlier battleship designs outclassed.

Pommern was sunk at the Battle of Jutland
https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/german-pre-dreadnought-battleship-sms-pommern/ #battleship #FirstWorldWar #GermanNavy #HighSeasFleet #ImperialGermanNavy #KaiserlicheMarine #maritimehistory #naval #NavalHistory #Navy #Predreadnought #SMSPommern #WW1

SMS Pommern was the second ship of the Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought battleships (along with her sisters Deutschland, Schleswig-Holstein, Schlesien, and Hannover) of the Imperial German Navy. Built at the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, she was laid down in 1903, launched in December 1905, and commissioned in August 1907. As with her sister ships Deutschland, Hannover, Schlesien, and Schleswig-Holstein, Pommern was already obsolete when completed, as HMS Dreadnought had entered service in 1906 and rendered earlier battleship designs outclassed.

Pommern was sunk at the Battle of Jutland

The Schlieffen Plan, prepared by German Chief of Staff General Alfred von Schlieffen (1833-1913) in 1905, was a secret plan of attack by German armed forces against France, should the two countries go to war. #History #SchlieffenPlan #FirstWorldWar #FrenchArmy #GermanArmy #ImperialGermany #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-25203-en/

#firstworldwar

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