Over Here and Over There

Over Here and Over There
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This book provides an unusual and engaging account of what life was like on the home front in WWI as seen from over 150 newspaper articles, which have been taken directly from the Shenandoah Evening Herald in Schuylkill County (The Coal Region) in Pennsylvania. As you read these human-interest stories, think of them as small segments of the past—bu

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Harry Bobonich. Over Here and Over There

Also by Chris Bobonich

Dedication

Introduction

A Brief History of the Coal Region

Assassination at Sarajevo

Shenandoah Evening Herald Articles

The Shooting at Sarajevo

Nicky and Willy

The Beginning of the Global War

The “Miracle” of the Marne

A Christmas Truce

The Home Front: 1914

First London Blitz and Terror

The Gaffe at Gallipoli

Allied Naval Attack

Rupert Brooke: The Idolized Poet

Armenian Genocide

Mission: Nemesis

When justice dies: vengeance is born

Poison Gas at Ypres

In Flanders Fields

Haber’s Horrible Experiment

Sinking the Lusitania

Afterward

The Battle of Loos

My Son Jack

The Home Front: 1915

1916: The War Grinds on

Verdun: A Diabolical Inferno

Gentlemen of the Congress

Jutland: Both Fleets Put to Sea

The Run to the South

The Run to the North

The Somme: Darkest Day of the War

Alan Seeger: the Legionnaire

Robert Graves: A Classic Scholar

Notables at the Somme

Sidney at the Somme

A Brief Fictional Interlude

The Mexican Expedition

Give Peace a Chance

The Home Front: 1916

1917: The Critical Year

Unrestricted German Submarine Warfare

The Zimmermann Telegram

America at War

Doughboys Travel on a Luxury Liner

Mobilizing the Home Front

The Labor Problem

Old Maid Card Game

The Dubious Nivelle Offensive

Air Warfare

An Air Power Visionary

The Call to Arms

The Red Cross

The Big Bang in Belgium

Liberty Bonds or German Slavery

Anti-German Sentiment

Sabotage on the Home Front

No Aliens Wanted

Women in the Work Force

Women in the Line of Fire

Women’s Suffrage

The Bisbee Bungle

The Wobblies

Food Will Win the War

The Motion Picture Industry

Catastrophe at Caporetto

The Battle of Cambrai

Germany’s Secret Weapon

1918—The Decisive Year

Ludendorff’s Offensive

A Victim of the Mob

African-Americans in the War

The Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood

Second Battle of the Marne

Romanov Dynasty Ends

Battle of Amiens: the Turning Point

The Meuse-Argonne Offensive

The Deadliest Pandemic in History

Is Another Pandemic Looming?

Only One Week Before the Armistice

The Central Powers Collapse

A Closer Look at the Armistice

An Astonishing Escape

A Brief Summary of the War

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Cause and Blame

What if?

An Intriguing “What if” Story

Just and Unjust Wars

A Final Thought

Pershing at the Argonne Cemetery

Aftermath

Appendix

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice. --Marcus Tullius Cicero

One of the Mollies sentenced was Patrick Dolan Sr. who was the ancient Order of Hibernians bodymaster in the village of Big Mine Run, in Schuylkill County. Dolan was convicted of conspiracy to reward Thomas Hurley for the murder of Gomer James and sentenced to 18 months in prison.

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