First World War

Why did the allies of the Triple Entente (Russia, France, and the United Kingdom) victimise this small country and persecute its king with false ac...

As the site of royal coronations, Reims cathedral was a monument to French national history and identity. But after German troops bombed the cathed...

A novel of love and valor, war and stupidity, life and death (as well as what may lay beyond our mortal coils), Baron Bagge concerns a young Austri...

The authoritative and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from The World's Greates...

During the First World War, the British Army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a millio...

On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, fifty miles ...

Once the steel storm of the industrial war had passed, the idyllic Flanders Fields region in Belgium was left as a desolate moon landscape. The Fir...

Germany in the 20th century endured two world wars, a failed democracy, Hitler's dictatorship, the Holocaust, and a country divided for 40 years af...

Americans today harbor no strong or consistent collective memory of the First World War. Ask why the country fought or what they accomplished, and ...

In 1919, Royal Christian privately published a memoir based on his experiences in World War I. However, the book has been lost to public knowledge ...

The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's finest poets, Siegfried Sassoon combines material from The Making of a War Poet and The ...

Histories you can trust. The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in p...

IN THE PAST, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He res...

Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Either classified in military archives specially c...