At a loose end tomorrow? Our book club is back for winter. From 8pm UK you can quiz @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social all about Ring of Fire! Email gwgfreetalks@gmail.com for zoom logins
At a loose end tomorrow? @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social book club is back for winter. From 8pm UK you can quiz myself and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social all about Ring of Fire! Email gwgfreetalks@gmail.com for zoom logins
Thank you for the lovely review Alan! Very happy you liked the book!
Book 80: Ring of Fire by @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social, on the first two months of the First World War, from the initial German successes against France, Russian successes against Germany, and Austrian successes against Russia, which are all reversed in short order.
Having lots of fun at IWM raging about all things #WW1 @historyrage.bsky.social @claremulley.bsky.social @historypegg.bsky.social @pikegrey1418.bsky.social @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social
Yes, same as the one in the second next to the long Mannlicher
Maybe not seeing me for a while helps
Range day!
@bigandylock.bsky.social in action at the 2025 @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference in Bristol! Great stuff!
Latvian troops of the Russian army with French supplied helmets π
From their trenches near Krasnopol in Poland, German troops observe the village of Tartak being consumed by flames, 1915.
Russian Nieuport IV on the Eastern Front. The Imperial Russian Air Service was the largest user of this type, originally developed in France, and soem 300 were buil in Russia by Russo-Baltic and Shschetinin in St. Petersburg and Dux in Moscow.
Fantastic photo of the main turret, with its twin 305mm guns, of the Imperial Russian battleshipΒ 'Andrei Pervozvanny'. The ship saw only very limited service during WW1 as part of the Russian Baltic Fleet. Her crew joined the generalΒ mutinyΒ of theΒ Baltic FleetΒ in early 1917.
Far from home: Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war wrestle for sport in a Russian POW Camp in Khabarovsk in the far east, June 1917. This was more than 7,000 kilometers from where these men were captured!
Fantastic photo of a group of German children studying the newest movements of the armies and the frontlines on a map of Europe, 1914.
A stitch in time saves Nein!
German soldier sewing up his friend's ripped pants.
Love the Staghound! Always liked the way it looked.
A German JΓ€ger patrol return to their shelter on the Baltic Coast in Kurland, Winter 1915/16.
"The advance of the 155th Kuban Infantry Regiment against Turkish positions at the Bardus Pass on December 25, 1914" by German painter Richard-Karl KarloviΔ Zommer (1866-1939)
When the greatest danger is dying of boredom.
Danish conscripts of the so-called Security Force, called up during the First World War to protect the country's neutrality.
A close shave in an Austro-Hungarian trench, 31 October 1917.
An Austro-Hungarian soldier strikes a pose with his M.15 ZeitzΓΌnder hand grenade in a trench on the Eastern Front.
If you don't want to miss out, join up! And if you don't care about my constant yapping on about the Eastern Front, don't worry, there are plenty of other fantastic articles from all theatres of the First World War! π
Ever heard of the "Island or Death" on Dvina River and the bloody battles that took place there from 1915-17? No? Well, if you are a member of the @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social and get the Salient Points magazine, you will soon, as that is what my article in the newest volumen is about ππ
Even this kind of joy can make me dance I public π
Big moment! π First time seeing @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I's book "Ring of Fire" in a bookstore in Denmark!!! So if your i Copenhagen, you can get it at @politiken.dk boghal!
Can't wait to give this talk. And while it's a topic I've talked about before, I've really tried to make it as unique as possible for the occasion, so don't miss out! AND don't miss out on the MANY MANY other great talks by incredible speakers!
Our @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference is a month away! So many talks and seminars to choose from.
@pikegrey1418.bsky.social will be giving an exclusive talk about the Battle of Galicia. This oft-ignored scrap in 1914 consumed a million casualties along a 200 mile front in three weeks!
