Articles – Page 32 – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘France at War’ – Kipling reports from the Front, 1915

Collector Andy Moreton delves into his prized copy of a book of reports from the Western Front by the British writer Rudyard Kipling.

November 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

November 7 1916 – Americans go to the polls in close Presidential race

President Woodrow Wilson narrowly won a second term in November 1916 on a platform of 'He Kept Us out of War', reflects Patrick Gregory.

November 21, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Mixed emotions’ on Emperor Franz Joseph Centenary – Radio Prague

A Radio Prague programme reports 'mixed emotions' among Czechs in the week that marked the 100th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph's death.

December 9, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Focus on Prague photographer’s tribute to the Czechoslovak Legionnaires

Centenary News views Milan Kabelka's photos, evoking actions fought by Czech and Slovak volunteers who sided with the Allies in pursuit of independence.

January 2, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Article: ‘Russians agonise over how to mark 1917 revolutions’

The Guardian reports that President Putin faces a dilemma of how to commemorate the events which shook Russia and the world in the penultimate year of the Great War.

January 17, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Article: The Spectator on ‘the greatest hackers of the First World War’

The story of how British intelligence experts intercepted and decoded Germany's proposal for an alliance with Mexico in January 1917 is told in The Spectator magazine.

January 18, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘War in the Sunshine: The British in Italy 1917-18’

An exhibition at the Estorick Collection in London offers a rare glimpse of Britain's First World War Italian campaign, writes CN Editor Peter Alhadeff.

February 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Article: Cork commemorates WW1 links with the US Navy

The 'huge' impact of the US naval presence on Irish coastal communities during the First World War is discussed by the Irish Examiner.

February 13, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Article: Flanders memorials to commemorate Irish soldiers killed in 1917

Memorials to be erected in Belgium this year to Irishmen who died during the battles of 1917 include a tribute to Major Willie Redmond, reports The Irish Times.

March 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown Blog: ‘World War at US doorstep’, February 1917

The escalating diplomatic tension between Washington and Berlin after Germany's resumption of unrestricted U-boat warfare in February 1917 is discussed in this latest post from US blogger Dennis Cross.