Do you know interesting WW1 stories?

Question

i am looking for stories of brave people who did something amazing or anything that is moving in the slightest way. please give me lots of answers i am really interested to remember my great grandfather.

Answer 1

Many years ago my grandfather a WWI veteran told me this story when I was 5 years old. I believed every word of it.

During the war he had been assigned K.P. duty, and he decided to make some flapjacks for the the troops. He had made the first batch and put them on the windowsill to cool when a German dive bomber dove down and scooped up the flapjacks on the tip of its wing. He made a second batch placed them on the sill to cool, and the bomber dove again making off with his flapjacks.

The third time he was ready. After placing his third batch on the sill he waited for the dive bomber. When it dove to get the third batch, he threw a jar of sorghum molasses into the engine downing the bomber. He received a medal at a ceremony held in his honor.

When I was older he also told me about the horrors of mustard gas, but I like the first story better.

Answer 2

The best story of WW1 that I know of is the initiation of the war in the assasination of the Arch Duke Ferdinand. There were several attempts to take the Dukes life on the same day. All of the planned, outlandish attempts were foiled for different reasons. Supposedly, one of the would be assasins gave up and was leaving when the Dukes vehicle just happened to pass him on his way home. Then the assasin simply shot him. Very strange circumstances and worth researching to find the detailed oriented facts. It would make a great written paper.

Answer 3

I am reading a new book titled "A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918" (ISBN 0553803549). I own a lot of books about WWI and WWII and this is the best WWI book I have read so far. I am not sure how well it specifically answers your question. It describes every major personality involved in WWI though. So it's a fantastic text to get aquainted with that part of our history.

Answer 4

T E Lawrence also known as the Lawrence of Arabia. The cruise of the Emden. The above mentioned lost battalion of the USA. The Red Baron AKA Baron Manfred Von Richthofen. These are all people to look up .

Answer 5

Hello! Try
Just Soldiers: Stories of ordinary Australians doing extrodinary things in time of war by Darryl Kelly.

This book is available at all good book shops or at
www.anzacday.org.au

Answer 6

Read up on the LOST BATTALION, or watch the movie starring Rick Schroeder. We lost 150,ooo killed in World War I almost all of them in a three month period. In other words Every Month we lost more men than in ten years in Vietnam.