First World War

In a time of great need for Britain, a small coterie of influential businessmen gained access to secret information on industrial mobilisation as a...

On April 25th 1915, during the First World War, the famous Anzacs landed ashore at Gallipoli. At the exact same moment, leading figures of Armenian...

In the midst of a seemingly endless war, a scarf connects three women in the cold winter of 1917 . . .London: As an ambitious scarf maker, Iris Bra...

General of the Armies John J. Pershing (18601948) had a long and decorated military career but is most famous for leading the American Expeditionar...

In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artists courageous journey is just beginning in a powerful novel about love, danger, and survival by ...

Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore MM was a British heiress who became a highly decorated volunteer nurse and ambulance driver on the Western...

The Great War of 191418 was the first conflict in which aircraft played a significant role. It was dangerous and sometimes exciting, and it created...

The Macedonian question has been much studied in recent years as has the political history of the period from the Balkan Wars in 1912-13 to the Tre...

World War I directly and indirectly caused events and social and political trends which defined the history of the world for the rest of the centur...

In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American new woman, Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, wome...

How to persuade citizens to enlist? How to convince them to fight in a war which was, for many, distant in terms of kilometres as well as interest?...

An immediate sensation when it was published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front has sold more than twenty million copies...

By the autumn of 1916, advances in Britains air defence capability had all but ended the Zeppelin menace, which had haunted the nation for almost t...