ARIEL'S FAMILY HISTORY. MA AND PA IN WORLD WAR ONE. 1914-1921
I’ve noted elsewhere the deplorable tendency of military men to fight the last war – or, as often as not – the one before that – and the Salonika campaign against the Turks was a virtual re-run of the Crimea War of the 1850s. The soldiers were scourged constantly with fly-borne diseases such as dysentery and malaria, and the trench lines were regularly swept by flu epidemics. Medical care was rudimentary to say the least, and marauding German U boats made evacuation of the sick impossible until... Sign in to see full entry.