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 [ … ]
Category: War diary
May 1916
In May 1916, the Great War had been going on for almost two years. The Monarchy survived the crisis in the winter of 1914-15. In the spring of 1915, they [ … ]
April 1916: Mole war on the Karst
After the severe fighting of 1915, there was relative calm on the Italian front during the winter. The fighting intensified from March. During the spring, there were a local attacks [ … ]
March 1916: the 5th Isonzo battle
After the Italian war declaration in 1915, fierce fighting unfolded on the south-western front until late autumn. The winter weather was not suitable to major military operations, as it was [ … ]
February 1916: Occupation of northern Albania
After forcing Serbia and Montenegro to their knees, the attack on the Entente troops continued in Albania. Albania was neutral at the beginning of the Great War, but its ports [ … ]
January, 1916
In the winter of 1914, the Monarchy received a big slap from little Serbia. The hard-to-occupy areas in the fall of 1914 had to be evacuated due to the simultaneous [ … ]
December 1915 Rarancze
Already the November war diary mentioned, that the Russian army, defeated in May-June 1915, was able to rearrange its ranks during the autumn and showed increasing resistance to the pursuing [ … ]
November 1915
In 1915, the Central Powers carried out successful attacks against Russia. As a result, Russian forces were not only withdrawn from the territories occupied in 1914, but Russian-Poland was also [ … ]
October 1915
Mt San Michele October 22, 1915, 43rd Infantry Regiment. This inscription is placed around the battle scene set in the stony landscape. That’s pretty much it, we know almost everything, [ … ]
September 1915
The offensive of the Central Powers, launched in May 1915, was exhausted by August. The Russian armies deployed in Russian-Poland were eventually not embraced and captured by German and Austro-Hungarian [ … ]