World War One - Frontline News

Throughout World War One, journalists risked their lives to bring news from the frontlines. Although America did not enter the war until April 1917, their newspapers had been full of news about the war since the summer of 1914. This is the story of the war using articles and interviews that were featured in regional newspapers from throughout the United States. In chronological order, the book contains, for example, interviews with British and other nationalisty soldiers in the trenches, survivors of ships sunk by U-boats, German prisoners, aviators and nurses and doctors who cared for the wounded. There is official war statements, updates from Generals,and speeches by politicians plus accounts of battles from writers that were in the frontline trenches.

An easy read that is interesting for both beginners and also WW1 enthusiasts.

Evening Tribune, 6th September 1915

Canadian soldier, Private W Chambers was aboard the Hesperian when it was torpedoed by the Germans. He was returning home blind. He had been told by a doctor that any sudden shock could restore his sight. "I was stone blind from shell fire at Ypres where I fought for three months.......continues.

The Bakersfield Californian, 20th June 2017

A report about the plight of children in France. 'The French children found in the villages of northern France evacuated by the Germans under pressure of the British and French present a picture of savagery of modern warfare as characteristic as the Somme forest shattered and broken by months of shellfire....continues 

The New York Times, 8th April 1918

Report from Field Marshal Haig's headquarters, "Successful minor operations undertaken by us this morning led to sharp local fighting. The enemy counter attacked strongly in an attempt to.......continues.

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