After the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary is determined to put a lid on Serbia once and for all. Ge...

Austria-Hungary starts the bombardment of Belgrade. What follows is a deployment race of armies between all major pow...

The first few days of war were a combination of failed organisation and chaos. The Austro-Hungarian supreme command l...

In the early days of World War 1, warfare is still based on ideas and ideals of 19th century generals. The technologi...

During their advance through Belgium, the German Army is committing atrocities against Belgian civilians - justified ...

While the Germans on the Western Front are very close to reaching Paris, the Eastern Front proves to become a disastr...

The German Army is so close to Paris that French soldiers are brought to the front by taxis. Together with the Britis...

After the advances and retreats during the early weeks of war, the front is coming to a grinding hold after the Battl...

parked by the desperate state of the Austrians, the Russian army goes on the offensive. General Ivanov even tries to ...

he autumn rain turns the battlefields into muddy landscapes. Mud in which the soldiers are hardly able to dig trenche...

In the trenches on the Western Front and in the mud on the Eastern Front, hundreds of thousands of soldiers die and w...

After defeating the Russian Army in the early weeks of the war, the German and Austrian generals hope to push the Rus...

The first weeks of war already took hundreds of thousands of lives and the daily struggle to survive in the trenches ...

After some heavy casualties during the first months of war, the armies had to look for new recruits. While Great Brit...

Three months after the outbreak of the war, another world power enters the conflict: The Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman ...

The German army dug in at the Western Front and waited for the next Russian attack at the Eastern Front. Even though ...

The commanders of the German army blame each other for the missing victories. Erich von Falkenhayn and Paul von Hinde...

Four months after the outbreak of the war, a new objective develops: the fight for the most valuable resources. The m...

During the first week of December, Austria manages to capture Belgrade. Thereby Austria is the first nation to achiev...

Near the far away Falkland Islands the story of the German East Asia Squadron is coming to an end: in a naval battle ...

German admiral Franz von Hipper reluctantly carries out his orders to bomb British costal towns. And indeed, this att...

Right before Christmas the allied powers begin the Champagne offensive, which will last several months. In snow, mud,...