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The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Aegean
E. Alexander Powell was an American war correspondent during World War I and author. He generally published material under the name E. Alexander Powell; his full name was Edward Alexander Powell. Powell was born in Syracuse, New York in 1879.
The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to The Ægean
The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the ?gean by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell CHAPTER I ACROSS THE REDEEMED LANDS It is unwise, generally speaking, to write about countries and peoples when they are in a state of political flux, for what is true at the moment of writing may be misleading the next. But the conditions which prevailed in the lands beyond the Adriatic during the year succeeding the signing of the Armistice were so extraordinary, so picturesque, so wholly without parallel in European history, that they form a sort of epilogue, as it were, to the story of the great conflict. To have witnessed the dismemberment of an empire which was hoary with antiquity when th...
Fighting in Flanders
Powell an American was a war correspondent for a US newspaper at the beginning of WWI. He and his American photographer Donald Thompson covered Belgium from August to October 1914. Due to their citizenship (the US was neutral at the time) they had access to both side of the line. They drove around the war zone protected only by the American flags on their car. Powell describes the beginnings of 'modern' warfare where an artillery shell controlled from a captive balloon kills from 8 miles away. He also describes the first bombing of a city from a Zeppelin, the first armored cars and what was probably the last cavalry charge. Winston Churchill makes an appearance promising to save the day in Antwerp but fails to do so. In the negative column are ...a few problems with chronology and a bit too much sis boom bah 'God bless America'.
The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Gean
The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the ?gean by Edward Alexander Powell It is unwise, generally speaking, to write about countries and peoples when they are in a state of political flux, for what is true at the moment of writing may be misleading the next. But the conditions which prevailed in the lands beyond the Adriatic during the year succeeding the signing of the Armistice were so extraordinary, so picturesque, so wholly without parallel in European history, that they form a sort of epilogue, as it were, to the story of the great conflict. To have witnessed the dismemberment of an empire which was hoary with antiquity when the Republic in which we live was yet unborn; to have...
Fighting in Flanders (Esprios Classics)
Edward Alexander Powell (1879 -1957) was an American war correspondent during World War I and author. Powell was born in Syracuse, New York. In 1898-1899 he worked for the Syracuse Journal, and in 1902 he became editor of Craftsman. From 1903-1904 he was an advertising manager for the Smith Premier Typewriter Company, based in London, England, and in 1905-1906 he worked in the Near East as a correspondent for British and American publications. From 1906-1909 he was a Consular official in Syria and Egypt. He also worked as a war correspondent during World War I and his position as a neutral allowed him access to both sides of the battle lines, from 1914 onwards.
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