The world-famous fantasy epic, Lord of the Rings, might never have been written if the author had not come down with a fever. The author of the trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien, was an officer for the British army during World War I. But when he came down with “trench...
Who would have thought that a supermarket company's commercial could capture one of the most poignant moments in a bloody war--World War I? The Christmas season is behind us, but I have to mention the commercial that the Sainsbury Company produced this past Christmas,...
A wrong turn triggered World War I. To find out how, check out a recent story that I wrote for the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. A Wrong Turn in History
Shell Shock Diagnosis Emerges From the Horrors of World War I I watched the Stephen Spielberg movie, War Horse, on the same weekend that I taped the latest episode of the PBS show, Downton Abbey, giving me a double-dose of World War I. The trauma of shell shock and...