Apocalyptic expectations ran riot in 1917, and had a major influence on Allied policies towards Palestine and the Jewish people. The propaganda of al….

Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially Germany ….

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't j….

Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917 it seemed to be set until….

It is also amazing to find just how religious and occult-minded some of the leading political and military players of the war were, from von Moltke a….

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world n….

. If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is that a religious doctrine….

Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible..

In most cases, obviously, soldiers fought because a government drafted them and gave them a rifle. At every point too, we see the role of nationalist….

The typical WW1 soldier was not an intellectual like Ernst Jünger or Wilfred Owen, but was a peasant draftee from Galicia or Bavaria or Sicily, with ….