Essays About World War I

Great Escape

on Normandy’s coast a century ago, Claude Debussy fled the war and composed his final piano masterpiece by Sudip Bose This essay appears in the Spring 2015 issue of  The American Scholar and its on-line version, vibrant offerings of the honorary fraternity Phi Beta Kappa, established… Read More

1914: The Christmas Truce

by Carol A. Hess Among the many things World War I left in its wake is an impressive and diverse body of musical works. The first commercially successful antiwar song in history, Al Piantadosi’s “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier,” enjoyed fleeting popularity in the United… Read More