The Great War

The Great War is a video documentary series on YouTube that covers World War I. The series will air each week over the next four years with each 6-10 minute episode covering a week’s worth of the war 100 years after it happened.

What an ambitious project. They’re currently up to week 15 of the war, when the Ottoman Empire enters the fray. (via @garymross)

• video
• wars
• World War I

Gunter Grass: How I Spent the War,

Gunter Grass: How I Spent the War, a first-person account of an SS recruit during WWII.

Update: Here’s some biographical information about Grass, who is a Nobel Prize-winning novelist. (thx, red)

• Germany
• guntergrass
• Nazis
• wars
• World War II

The last surviving WWII Comanche code talker dies

The last surviving WWII Comanche code talker dies.

The group of Comanche Indians from the Lawton area were selected for special duty in the U.S. Army to provide the Allies with a language that the Germans could not decipher.

• language
• Native Americans
• wars
• World War II