Tag Archives: First World War

Alvin Cullum York, American Hero of the First World War

I’d never heard of Alvin Cullum York until I visited Nashville, Tennessee. Fascinated as I am by First World War monuments, I headed straight for the larger-than-life-sized bronze figure with bayonet drawn on corner of the capitol lawn. York, a pacifist, was born in a log cabin some 125 miles east of Nashville, in central-ish …

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The Democracy of Death

The aftermath of the First World War, with its appalling body count and wholesale devastation, was  a  period of great memorial construction.  In this “democracy of death,” there were attempts across the former belligerent states, with the exception of Soviet Russia, to honor all the war dead, irrespective of rank, and including the unknown dead. …

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