First World War

Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. ...

In the early days of flight, no one imagined the aeroplane as a weapon of war. Inevitably, the First World War proved the catalyst that was to chan...

Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-H...

The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the gl...

The 19th Battalion was an infantry unit that fought in many of the deadliest battles of the First World War. Hailing from Hamilton, Toronto, and ot...

This is the story of Germanys commerce raiders of World War I, the surface ships that were supposed to starve the British Isles of the vast cargoes...

This wide-ranging collection of articles by some of the most renowned names in the subject explores the tumultuous events of the final year of the ...

Because of the geographical location of the Isle of Thanet, it was always going to play a part in the First World War. For some wounded British and...

At the outbreak of the First World War, the United Kingdom had no aerial defence capability worthy of the name. When the war began Britain had just...

Mick Powis describes the novel threat posed to the British war effort by the raids of German airships, or Zeppelins, and the struggle to develop ef...

_Cambrai Campaign 1917_ is an account of the British Expeditionary Force s battles in November and December of 1917. It starts with the plan to car...

In 2000 aircraft restorer Guy Black of Aero Vintage located the hulks of at least two Airco DH9 bombers in a remote part of India hidden away in w...

Winston Churchill called it the unknown war. Unlike the long stalemate of the Western Front, the conflict 191418 between the Russian Empire and the...

Over 3,540 Old Cheltonians (OCs - former pupils of Cheltenham College) fought in the Great War of 1914-18, with six being awarded the Victoria Cros...

On January 24, 1915, a German naval force commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper conducted a raid on British fishing fleets in the area of the Dogge...

The First World Wars fierce battles saw the need to develop military technology beyond anything previously imagined: as exposed infantry and cavalr...

Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it we...

More than 8,000 men served in the Fifth Marine Regiment during World War I and the occupation of Germany. Marine units were among the first to a...

Through both World Wars, young African conscripts from Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, the Congo and elsewhere found themselves fighting for their colon...

In April 1917, Congress approved President Woodrow Wilson's request to declare war on the Central Powers propelling the United States into the Euro...

In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's...

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kiffin Yates Rockwell, from Asheville, North Carolina, volunteered to fight for France. Initial...

In its list of the Top 10 Badass Marines, Leatherneck magazine declared that Major George W. Hamilton never asked anyone to do anything he wasn'...

Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916. After America en...

The role of Americans in the two world wars is well known, but with a glaring exception--one that reveals a little-known aspect of the common hi...

Lieutenant John Huddleston Taber was a New Yorker assigned to the 168th Third Iowa Infantry Regiment of the American Expeditionary Force's 42nd ...

Now that the United States has declared war upon the German Empire, and that men will more than likely be conscripted into the service, I shall ...

Journey into the heart of Europe, 1918 a world left ravaged by World War 1, and on the cusp of radical change. Daniel Schönpflug's A World on Edg...