First World War

During the First World War the Australian Government established an official war art scheme, sending artists to the front lines to create a visual ...

Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World Wa...

At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built w...

So much has been written about the 1916 Battle of the Somme that it might appear that every aspect of the four-month struggle has been described an...

The First World War at once extends and marks a departure from established understandings of the literature and culture of the First World War. In ...

Steeped in conspiracy, scandal and socialism the disappearance of radical icon Victor Grayson is a puzzle thats never been solved. A firebrand and...

This is the story of the naval war in northern European waters following the critical if inconclusive battle of Jutland. There is a popular misconc...

The British Navy's failed attempt to capture Constantinople and secure a sea route to Russia in 1915 marked a turning point of World War I. Acclaim...

This new book explores for the first time the full story of how two Turkish and two Chilean battleships became British capital ships after the outb...

A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built, operated and fought, as it challenged the world's most powerful navy...

A compelling history. The Sunday Times Thought-provoking. The Spectator Interesting and well-researched. The Sunday Telegraph A compelling hist...

If I should die, think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England.From The Soldier to Anthem for Doomed Yo...

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was d...

The official Australian casualty statistics for the men of the Australian Imperial Force in the First World War are seriously wrong, with significa...

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden all managed to stay out of the First World War, but all three were deeply affected by it. When the trade war and blocka...

Australian and New Zealand volunteers were already in Serbia, treating wounded Serbian soldiers and fighting a typhus epidemic, before the ANZACs l...

11 novembre 1918. La victoire inachevée La France croit avoir gagné la guerre, elle na gagné quune paix précaire. Ce constat dramatique est le po...

The First World War changed London and Londoners forever. For the drivers who took their buses to the Western Front and for their families and frie...

When Edgar Mobbs ran on a rugby field, people watched. Eyes were drawn to him. A towering, upright presence - long of stride with knees raised high...

The major art installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at the Tower of London marked one hundred years since the first full day of Britain's ...