Big moment! 😊 First time seeing @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I's book "Ring of Fire" in a bookstore in Denmark!!! So if your i Copenhagen, you can get it at @politiken.dk boghal!

Can't wait to give this talk. And while it's a topic I've talked about before, I've really tried to make it as unique as possible for the occasion, so don't miss out! AND don't miss out on the MANY MANY other great talks by incredible speakers!

Our @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference is a month away! So many talks and seminars to choose from. @pikegrey1418.bsky.social will be giving an exclusive talk about the Battle of Galicia. This oft-ignored scrap in 1914 consumed a million casualties along a 200 mile front in three weeks!

New Book Review Title:Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War. 1914 Authors:Alexandra Churchill /Nicolai Eberholst REVIEW Most countries did not know what they were getting into during opening days of 1914... Events in Canada are examined Keep Reading www.publishersweekly.com/9781639369270

So @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I were overwhelmed by the warm welcome given to us & @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social by Kansas City last night to share our book with everyone this side of the atlantic. Massive thanks to everyone at the National WWI museum & of course our host @bartparish.bsky.social

Saw an excellent talk by @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social there last night. Their new book Ring of Fire is worth a long look.

Can’t wait for this talk!! So proud of Alex Churchill (@alexchurchill.bsky.social) & Nicolai Eberholst (@pikegrey1418.bsky.social) launching the US version of their new Global History of World War I at the National WWI museum #militaryhistory #WWI

We're not in Europe anymore, Toto.... but we are in Kansas! 🇺🇲

First time seeing the book in the wild in person! Yes, if you couldn't tell, I was excited! 😂

So excited for @alexchurchill.bsky.social just saw her book in the wild in South Carolina! Congratulations to her and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social — go out & get a copy!

In the wild in South Carolina @pikegrey1418.bsky.social (and some other dude) @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social

The full review from @wsj.com 🙏🏼 @pikegrey1418.bsky.social

Never in a million years did I expect that I would see this. #1 Best Seller in World War I History on Amazon. Thanks to everyone! @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I are unbelievably grateful and super excited! 🙏❤️

So @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I are delighted with the review of Ring of Fire in the @wsj.com If you’re at a loose end next weekend we will be doing a free event with the National WWI Museum in Kansas City. There’s also the option to take part online www.theworldwar.org/events/ring-...

If you’ve been lovely enough to support @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I by purchasing a copy of Ring of Fire, please do leave a review everywhere you can. The same one is fine! It all makes a difference to algorithms etc online and makes us more visible

A German assault detachment of the 27th Infantry Regiment in a recently captured French Trench, 16 May 1917.

Newly conscripted Austr-Hungarian soldiers billeted in a school in Budapest before leaving for the front, August 1914.

"VARSOWIE EST TOMBÉE" - A sign put up by the soldiers of the German 39th Reserve Infantry Regiment to inform the French of the Fall of Warsaw on 5 August 1915.

Ring of Fire is currently on offer on space wanker’s site, if you want to take liberal advantage of him and bag a copy… www.amazon.co.uk/Ring-Fire-Gl... @pikegrey1418.bsky.social

Today is the day! 😁The official release of Ring of Fire in the United States! @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I are super excited, and hope you'll all enjoy it! And if you are able to come, we will be in Kansas City on the 23rd to celebrate it! Details blow!😁 @donaldwin.bsky.social

One thing @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social's new book is very,very good at getting across is that no one has any good frame of reference and they're kind of stumbling around in the dark trying to figure out *what* it is

When @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I sat down with @bigthink.com to talk all things 1914… bigthink.com/books/ring-o...

"In the Trenches" by Hungarian painter László Mednyánszky (1852-1919). During the war, Mednyánszky visited Galicia, Serbia and South Tyrol. He was wounded in 1918, fell ill and died the year after in his Vienna studio.

Look what arrived!😁 Hitting shelves in the US next week (5th Aug)! To celebrate, you can join @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I in Kansas City at the National WWI Museum and Memorial on 23rd Aug. Hope to see you there! 🫶 details below!👇👇👇

Some words of praise for Ring of Fire by @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social This book seeks to give an account of the first weeks and months of WW1 not (only, primarily) through generals' memoirs and regimental histories but through the testimonies of those involved 1/n

Home from vacation (Hungary and Slovakia) and here's the book haul! Could have been more, but I'm happy! Damn you maximum luggage weight!!!

@alexchurchill.bsky.social @pikegrey1418.bsky.social senior member of the family loved it; amazed by the detail and research. 👍🏼💕

Thank you for everything! Legend!

I sometimes get distracted from the history of science by books on the first world war. This book is amazingly detailed in giving us the human perspective of the start of the war. It is a very very good read. Highly recommended! @alexchurchill.bsky.social @pikegrey1418.bsky.social

Some from me, Stu. All top drawer imho. ESP @pikegrey1418.bsky.social / @alexchurchill.bsky.social as a popular history on a subject everyone thinks they know is hard to pull off. I also LOVED Martha Sprackland’s Citadel and Zaffir Kunial’s England’s Green & @alanallport.bsky.social’s Britain at Bay

Thank you for everything! Legend!

The decision was ‘Ring of Fire’ by @pikegrey1418.bsky.social @alexchurchill.bsky.social - also a clue to the subject of my next book and present research. I also bought the audio version of ‘Tank’ by @markurban.bsky.social

A smiling and smoking Austro-Hungarian Zugsführer proudly presents the family of rats he caught in the trenches with a homemade rat trap.

A German soldier during the Battle of Lys, April 1918. Note that the bolt of his Mauser G98 is bent, not straight, as is normally only seen on the carbines. This rifle is actually a sniper rifle with the scope detached, and a close look reveals the scope mounts on the action.

One of the most amazing photos of the First World War if you ask me! - An Austro-Hungarian 'Landesschützen' (later renamed 'Kaiserschützen') patrol in the Carnic Alps, 16 July 1916. Note the Steyr-produced M.1912 Mauser rifles, popularly known as "Mexicans".

Truly amazing photo of German civilians outside a bomb shelter in the streets of Tsingtao, China, during the Japanese siege of the German colony, November 1914. Note the unexploded shell standing on one of the sandbags.

So, finished this today. I’m probably slightly biased as authors @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social are friends and fellow @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social trustees, but it’s really an excellent read. Covers a lot of ground in a very readable writing style…..

Julius Glück (right), an important proponent of the constructed language Esperanto, as an Austro-Hungarian soldier in Galicia, 1916. Throughout his life, Glück wrote many articles on Esperanto, gave speeches and taught over 30,000 students. He was killed in Auschwitz in 1942.

Never skimp on the Wurst! - Austro-Hungarian soldiers of the 8th Company of the K.u.K Infantry Regiment No.84 with a freshly made batch of sausages in a trench on the Ikwa, Autumn 1915.

Another one spotted in the wild by my parents on their vacation to the South of England, this one in Waterstones in Exeter 😁🥰 @alexchurchill.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social @donaldwin.bsky.social

My folks are on a bus tour around the South of England. Whenever they pass a bookshop, they go to see if they have Ring of Fire on the shelves to send me a photo 😁🥰😍 Here from Stanfords in Bristol! @alexchurchill.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social @donaldwin.bsky.social

Painting by an unknown artist depicting German infantry on the attack. The painting was used as the covor illustration for a German weekly paper on 7 November 1918 - the paper's last issue before the armistice.

Reality of war: An Austro-Hungarian "Kriegsneurotiker" suffereing from obsessive–compulsive symptoms in a Budapest Hospital, 1916.

German soldiers of the Asien-Korps manning a light machine gun in Palestine, 1918. The gun is a Bergmann MG 15nA. While rarely used on the Western Front, these light machine guns saw much more use on the Eastern Front and with the Asien-Korps in the Sinai and Palestine.

Youngest soldier of the Austro-Hungarian K.u.K Infantry Regiment No.137 in Italy, 1918. Unfortunately, I don't know his name or his age.

Childhood in wartime - Young Serbian boys, wearing Austro-Hungarian Army caps and uniforms found on the battlefield, playing soldiers.

Amazing review of RING OF FIRE in The Observer! @watsonlittle.bsky.social @alexchurchill.bsky.social @pikegrey1418.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social

During the "Patriotic wool and rubber collection"-campaign in Vienna in 1915, someone donated a polar bear stuffed with rugs and rubber hoses to the war effort.

Austro-Hungarian sailors wearing anti-flash protection gear, designed to protect the wearer from short-duration flame exposure and heat. Such equipment was first introduced in 1916, following the Battle of Jutland.