First World War

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...