Winter warfare continued this month. Exhausted troops carried out smaller actions. No major operations took place on the fronts of the Monarchy. Among the enterprises, the attack on the Magyaros [ … ]

The fourth year of the war welcomed troops who had already suffered a lot, and hinterlands that had reached the limit of their ability to perform, all over Europe. This [ … ]

There is a very curious badge that shows a German and a A-H infantryman. In their hands, as in the case of the saints, are weapons as a sign of [ … ]

In February 1915, Turkey launched an unsuccessful attack on the British-controlled Suez Canal. The attack was repeated in July 1916. An Austro-Hungarian artillery unit, the von Marno Artillery Division, also [ … ]

The Act of 5th November was a declaration of the German and Austrian emperors to create the Kingdom of Poland. Poles regard this date as the day of rebirth of [ … ]

In the summer of 1916, after a long hesitation, Romania saw the moment to enter the Great War. The Germans were pressed by the British at the Somme, and the [ … ]

Encouraged by the partial success of the 6th Battle of the Isonzo, the Italian command initiated another offensive operation in the lower reaches of the Isonzo in September. The attack [ … ]

The great Russian offensive of June 1916 crushed the Austro-Hungarian 4th and 7th armies. In many places, even the strongest regiments were simply swept away by the multiple superiority. The [ … ]

In January 1916, the 40th “Fokos” division, including the 30th infantry regiment, suffered huge losses in the battles around Toporoutz in Bukovina. The regiment then had to be reorganized and [ … ]

The graphics on the postcard of this post have excited me for many, many years. We see in this a strong representation of the horrors of war that makes it [ … ]