Tag Archives: World War I

China’s Forgotten World War I

July 30, 2014 | by LARB Blog

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Photo: The dedication of the WWI memorial in Shanghai, in 1924.

By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

World War I has always been primarily Continue reading

A Soldier Poet, Baring His Soul-Siegfried Sassoon’s World War I Diaries Are Published Online

By ALAN COWELLAUG. 1, 2014


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Siegfried Sassoon

LONDON — He yearned for “a genuine taste of the horrors.” Continue reading

Penguin Books’ China eSpecials – World War I, History & Politics

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

I stumbled across the first four of these eBook specials earlier today, and thought I’d share the information. With the UK and elsewhere paying a lot of

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