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The McMahon–Hussein letter of 24 October 1915. George Antonius—who had been the first to publish the correspondence in full—described this letter as "by far the most important in the whole correspondence, and may perhaps be regarded as the most important international document in the history of the Arab national movement... is still invoked as the main piece of evidence on which the ...
Sir Edward Hamilton Westrow Hulse, 7th Baronet (31 August 1889 – 12 March 1915) was an officer in the British Army during the First World War. He had his letters published posthumously detailing his account of the fighting on the Western Front, describing events such as the Christmas Truce. [1]
Russian occupation of Tabriz (1909–1915, 1915–1918) First ottoman occupation of Tabriz (1915) Second ottoman occupation of Tabriz (1918) Battle of Dilman (1915) (Allied victory) British occupations of Bushehr (1838, 1856, 1915) (Allied victory) Third british occupation of Bushehr (1915) (Allied victory) Jungle Movement of Gilan (1915-1920)
The "Lansdowne letter" called for Britain to negotiate a peace with Germany during the First World War. It was published by a London newspaper and written by Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, a former foreign secretary and war minister. Lansdowne came under withering criticism, with few supporters, and the government rejected ...
Captain Hulse's letter narrated by David Jones. Private Ronald Mackinnon letter from the truce of 1916. Newspaper articles and clippings about the Christmas Truce at Newspapers.com; The evolution of trust (An interactive visualisation of the Christmas truce as well as the evolution of trust) Alexandre Lafon: Christmas Truce, in: 1914-1918-online.
German author Hans Herbert Grimm wrote a novel Schlump in 1928 which was published anonymously due to its satirical and anti-war tone, loosely based on the author's own experiences as a military policeman in German-occupied France during WW1. The novel was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and Grimm was not credited as the author until 2013.
In May and June 1915, the Ottoman Empire waged a genocide against the Armenian Christian minorities in Anatolia. The Vatican attempted to get Germany and Austria-Hungary involved in protesting to its Turkish ally. The Pope himself sent a personal letter to Sultan Mehmed V, who was also Caliph of Islam. It had no success "as over a million ...
"To my people" was a typical headline of war manifestoes; it was used by Prussia upon its entry into the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon in 1813, in the Austrian declaration of war on Prussia in 1866 and in the announcement of the Italian entry into World War I (against Austria-Hungary) in 1915.