My Family’s War
The American experience in the First World War has shaped the United States politically and culturally until the present day. The American Soldiers of the Great War, or “Doughboys” as they are affectionately known, had an experience while at the Front, that has been passed over in many of today’s history textbooks. With the passing…
Morris Polsky’s Diary
With the anniversary of the primary American battles at the Marne, Soissons, St. Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne within a few weeks of each other, I thought now to be an interesting time to post the transcribed diary of my Great-great uncle, Morris Polsky. Morris was a Sergeant in Battery A, 18th Field Artillery, 3rd Division.…
The Ideal Subaltern
On 24 August 1917, Captain Richard Luard Hardy was killed in action during the height of the Third Battle of Ypres. As Adjutant of the 8th King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he was in battalion headquarters when the 8th was relieved by the 9th Rifle Brigade. As the KRRC moved out of the line between Clapham Junction and Stirling…
James Taub, Historian 