The re-entry of Romania in the First World War
The military and economic power of the Entente was such that the fate of the war was finally decided in the second half of 1918. Tired of the war effort, the Central Powers began to ask for peace one after the other. The first country to request an armistice was...
French General Henri Berthelot calls the Romanian army back into battle
The defeat of Bulgaria on September 28, 1918 at the hands of Allied troops on the Macedonian Front paved the way for further politico-military developments in the Balkans and beyond. The arrival of General Henri Berthelot to Thessaloniki and the creation of the Army...
The Palace of the National Military Circle- The symbolic building of the Romanian army, transformed into a prison by the Germans
The National Military Circle is one of the oldest Romanian military institutions, established on December 15, 1876. At the end of the 19th century, at a time when the capital of Romania was modernizing at an accelerated pace, the idea of building a headquarters for...
The Romanian patriotic mission to the United States (1917). The attempt to organize a Romanian Legion in America
The entry of the United States of America into the First World War on the side of the Entente on April 6, 1917 gave the Romanian authorities the opportunity to try to recruit volunteers from the Romanians that were living there, in order to fight against the Central...
The remobilization of the Romanian army in the autumn of 1918
Even though Romania was “temporarily” knocked out of the war by the Treaty of Bucharest, which was signed on May 7, 1919, King Ferdinand and his entourage closely followed the evolution of the fighting on the Western and Macedonian fronts. Romanian generals prepared...
The Vardar Offensive and Romania
Most often political and military events are handled and viewed by politicians in different ways. But what distinguishes good politicians from mediocre ones is the vision and the capacity to anticipate the consequences that an event can have on the country. This is...
Romania and the military events of the summer of 1918
What Romania went through in 1918 can be characterised very well by a famous saying: from agony to ecstasy. On August 27, 1916, Romania entered the First World War on the side of the Entente, with the purpose of uniting to the country the provinces inhabited by...
1916- The revenge of the Germans in Bucharest
Shortly after occupying Bucharest in 1916, the German military devastated the homes of several Romanian politicians who supported, during the country’s neutrality, the entrance of Romania in the war on the side of the Entente. In his memoirs, Vasile Th. Cancicov...
The Battle of the Somme, in the diary of a British soldier: «I slept for about an hour a day, always standing up. Often, when from sheer exhaustion I doze off, I’m awakened by a rat on my shoulder.»
The lost diary of a soldier reveals the daily dramas of the soldiers, illustrating a bleak reality, marked by soldiers who killed their own comrades in the confusion of battle. The soldier was called Harry Drinkwater and he describes the Battle of the Somme in...
The Battle of Orșova
Both the documents of the time, as well as the works that appeared after the First World War, give a broad description of the military actions carried out in the area of Vârciorova- Orşova (Mehedinţi County) and highlight how the Romanian soldier fully understood his...