First World War

Siblings are our longest lasting relationships. Narratives of the Great War abound with the war stories of brothers and sisters. Their emotional ex...

The First World War was waged through the participation not just of soldiers but of men, women, and children on the home front. Mass-produced, full...

An elite team of reporters brought the Great War home each week to ten million readers of the Saturday Evening Post. As Americas largest circulatio...

Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people thro...

How did ordinary citizens become soldiers during the First World War, and how did they cope with the extraordinary challenges they confronted on th...

World War I might conjure up images of the trenches of the Western Front where the fighting raged for nearly four and half years, but this was only...

Published during the war's centennial, this is the story of the First World War through forty propaganda posters. Essays explain each poster, unpac...

When Great Britain and its dominions declared war on Germany in August 1914, they were faced with the formidable challenge of transforming masses o...

With her soft linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emble...