#beaudricourt

"Et surtout, n'oubliez pas que dans cette histoire, même en la jugeant - surtout en la jugeant - nous avons la charge de cette âme qui est dans ce petit corps faible et insolent "

L'Alouette, Jean Anouilh

And above all, don't forget that in this story, even if you are judging her - above all while judging her - we are in charge of this soul wich is in this little, weak and insolent body"

#OTD in #WW1 Answer to the most important question about the Battle of #Verdun: "how do we translate "Operation Gericht"?

Battle of Verdun Right then, here we go. About now, General von Falkenhayn is about to present his plan for an offensive on the Western Front to the Kaiser at a Crown Council meeting. Exactly what he said is one of the more disputed questions of the war, without (at present) being a Matter of Some Debate. The “orthodox” position, if we can call it that, is based on von Falkenhayn’s own post-war…

#OTD in #WW1 #SuvlaBay & #ANZAC Cove evacuated; the French give official support to the Schneider CA1 tank project

Evacuation of Gallipoli Time for the ANZACs to leave ANZAC Cove. Before we get into the details of what they’re doing, first we must take note of the first actually useful attack from Cape Helles since the First Battle of Krithia. It’s an unashamed diversion, of course, and it achieves its purpose of getting the Ottomans to not look at the north of the peninsula, nothing to see there, hoo boy, no…