Jesse Alexander
@jessealexander
Public historian; host of The Great War and Real Time History channels on Youtube via Real Time History; History lecturer; Host of the Both Sides of the Wire podcast via Battleguide Productions.
If anyone is following the responses to Elbridge Colby's post about middle powers, here is one worth considering:
Happy Canada Day! Previously known as Dominion Day, including in 1917.
Quebec Cemetery, where the dead of (mostly) two Quebec battalions are buried from the fighting in August 1918.
“He has the gleam of light divine; the loss and loneliness are mine.”
Flak towers in Vienna. Left, combat tower. Right, control tower.
Painting of Hungarian troops, no other info. Sardinian War? Austro-Prussian War? 1848-49 revolution?
Model of Austro-Hungarian battleship Sankt Isztvan and diagramme of how it sank. Exhibition at Komarom, Hungary.
Plaque marking the site of the former Sportpalast where Goebbels gave his total war speech. Now the courtyard of an apartment complex.
Exciting game of Maria: Prussians and French had the Austrians in trouble, then the French pulled out to focus on the Low Countries and the Prussians lost an army. Tide seemed to have turned when the Prussians lucked out in a big battle and got the last two victory points to seal it in extremis!
A replica Statue of Liberty on the office building of a scrapyard in Pezinok, Slovakia.
FWW memorial in Pezinok, Slovakia. Particularly interesting as they have the names listed by year and include the ages.
Berlin street sign recalls a Prussian victory in the Austro-German War of 1866.
The old Kaiser being used to sell tuna salad (and lots of other products, like olive oil) in Slovakia.
I contributed a three chapters to this forthcoming book along with Dan Hill, Spencer Jones, and Matthias Strohn. Pre-orders are open! lnk.to/inferno_book
Is it bad when your Prime Minister gives a national address on Youtube basically saying relations with the US won't go back to normal - with a miniature figure of a British General killed while defending Canada against a US invasion on his desk. (Isaac Brock in 1812)
On the use of history for political purposes today, just saw this on Facebook: