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In , it was one hundred years since the outbreak of the Great War in Beyond the opportunity of the date, it seems obligatory to dedicate the first issue of Desperta Ferro Contemporánea to the conflict that would give character to the war that will characterize much of of the period covered by this new header. The First World War can be understood globally as the desperate search for operational solutions for a type of conflict that was impossible to resolve under nineteenth-century approaches that would entail dramatic costs. We have chosen to focus on a small and decisive period, the first five weeks of the war in the specific scenario of the Western Front. The first two months were among the bloodiest of the entire conflict, a demonstration that the limits of the challenge would be established by the capacity for suffering of individuals and the capacity for resistance of societies. More information Desperta Ferro Contemporánea No. : Gallipoli In , the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign was commemorated , to which a series of aspirations were associated: the possibility of the Navy making its way from the Mediterranean to Constantinople should lead to the capitulation of the Ottoman Empire and a complete alteration of the Balkan scenario in favor of the allies that would represent a dagger in the back of the Central Powers.
The Ottoman Empire, that secular “sick person of Europe”, seemed an affordable rival, however, the Ottomans showed an increase in their military efficiency thanks to the assistance and advice of Germany. The result of all this would be a clash without strategic consequences for the war and that ended up reproducing the operational morass symbolized by the trenches of the B2B Email List Western Front; exactly what the Gallipoli campaign had aspired to solve in its genesis. More information Desperta Ferro Contemporánea No. : Verdun The temporal, material and, above all, human magnitude of the Battle of Verdun amply justifies that one hundred years after its beginning it continues to be an object of study that cannot be considered closed and that maintains an important degree of historiographic debate. Erich von Falkenhayn's "attrition" logic resulted in an apparently inconclusive duel in which both sides suffered a comparable number of casualties and where, from an operational perspective, there was not the slightest alteration of the front that was significant... and However, it turned out to be a decisive battle.
Although at first glance it had no object, in this battle both sides relieved their military leaders and changed their strategy. The ideas matured at the end of the battle of Verdun led to the belief that the coming battles could put an end to the war. However, that did not happen. Ils ne passeront pas! More information Desperta Ferro Contemporánea No. : Lawrence of Arabia Although in reality historical events are the result of various causes, there is a legend that sometimes a single person can twist the course of history and turn what “should have happened” into “what happened.” Something like this seems to have happened with Thomas Edward Lawrence's performance in the immensity of the Arabian desert, to the point that he has become known as Lawrence of Arabia . However, Lawrence of Arabia's contribution to the Arab Revolt continues to be discussed and, of course, he was not the only actor in it. After the war, the Arabs saw their aspirations to become a single country thwarted by the territorial ambitions of the French and British, and one of the men they blamed for this was Thomas Edward Lawrence. His forays into the deep desert, his writings about key figures of the rebellion, his spirit in action and in the camps made him both a hero and a villain, and are part of his particular legend, that of Lawrence of Arabia.
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