The First World War shaped the twentieth century. It sparked the Russian Revolution, and it launched America as a wor...

The first months of the war on the Western Front were mobile, fast and dangerous; casualty rates were higher than wit...

War for Europe meant war for the world. Germany gambled that Britain might risk everything to protect her Empire - ev...

The Ottoman Empire, Germany's ally, summoned all Muslims to Jihad - holy war - to overthrow Allied power in the Middl...

As the Germans and Austrians clashed with The Russians on the bitter Eastern Front, Italy became embroiled in a terri...

Attrition, "lions led by donkeys", the slaughter only ceasing for a brief truce one Christmas - old, mistaken views o...

The war at sea was every bit as bitter as the war on land. The battle at Jutland proved inconclusive but the U-Boat m...

The effect of the Great War shattered nations, inspired mass mutinies by desperate troops, caused great upheaval on t...

Over one million German troops were committed to Kaiserschlacht - the last great offensive of the war - while conflic...

The dramatic Allied victory at Amiens led to victory in just 100 days - and the signing of a bitterly-resented peace,...