During the years leading up to 1914, Europe’s upper classes, the landowning aristocracy and the industrial-financial bourgeoisie, had lived through years of almost intolerable tension. Obsessed by the ...

This year saw the centennial anniversary of the end of the World War I, in which some sixteen million Europeans died, two great European countries were destroyed, and other countries were crippled.

On April 6, 1917, the United States formally entered the conflict in Europe, declaring war against Germany to join on the side of Allied nations. When the war first began in 1914, President Woodrow ...

In all the debates about which country was most responsible for the horrors of World War One, Britain invariably escapes any serious blame. That is until now. Douglas Newton has written the definitive ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, battling German and British soldiers laid down their arms and sang Christmas carols together — a brief moment of peace in the midst of war.December 1914. World War I had been ...

The first modern war created the modern Nation. Share US delegates to the Niagara Peace Conference of 1914: Associate Justice Lamar of the US Supreme Court, former Solicitor General Frederick W.

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Nick Lloyd, Professor of Modern Warfare at King’s College London, to discuss his new book, The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918. They chat about ...

Saturday marked one hundred years since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. In hindsight, the assassination clearly marks the beginning of the process ...

Flight, as a journal, had been in publication for only five years when the emerging industry of 'aerial locomotion' it covered weekly was thrust into proving its value as an instrument of warfare.

WALTER MILLIS was just old enough to get into uniform before the World War ended and, of course, only knew the Spanish-American War as something that had happened before he was born and about which ...