First World War

John Singer Sargent's Gassed is one of IWM's most iconic and best-loved objects. Truly monumental in scale, it is also the largest painting in the ...

In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments ...

'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich'This work ...

The German-Japanese War was a key, yet often neglected, episode in the opening phase of the First World War. It had profound implications for the f...

Edith Wharton, the author of classic novels including The Age of Innocence, was an American living in Paris when war broke out in 1914. In the mont...

Love, grief, hate and fear are among the emotions most immediately associated with the rhetoric, experience and memory of war. Focusing on Europe d...

Since 2003, Iraq has rarely left the headlines. But less discussed is the fact that Iraq as we know it was created by the British, in one of the mo...

Much of the French department of the Nord was occupied during the First World War. This book considers the ways in which occupied locals responded ...