WWI Fringe Battlegrounds

Thanks for sharing.

Monty Python got some good alliterative mileage out of that term in their movie “And Now For Something Completely Different.”  One sequence in the movie is a fake WWII British newsreel, in black and white, with suitably bombastic narration that includes the opening line “Yes, the war against the Hun continues – and as Britian’s brave boys battle against the Boche…”  By the standards of genuine WWII newsreels, that’s actually not as over-the-top as it sounds to modern ears.  And during a real WWII deception operation, the fake letter from General Nye to General Alexander which was the centrepiece of the “Mincemeat” disinformation scheme used such phrases as “We have had recent information that the Boche have been reinforcing and strengthening their defences in Greece and Crete…”

Right on CWO.  Way cool read. I read of this in Forsythe’s “The Afgan”. It didn’t have many details though.

That was one major explosion. In recent times their was a ammo dump that went up in iraq. It was claimed no foul play but I’ve always wondered.

Thank you Marc. Interesting indeed. No nothing of Harding, so nice to hear this story.

“Italy throws a punch at Austria and misses, but Austria falls over anyway.” Oh gawsh that part had me rolling.

This is another great one: http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6650094/facebook-news-feed-history-of-the-world-world-war-i-to-world-war-ii

Plutocracy is certainly not incompatible with imperialism.

Thank you for the WWI topic.

A large percentage of Canada’s national debt is the payments for the trans continental railroad from the late 1800’s…