Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the ... barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918, despite attempts on both sides to ...

Germany today is one of the most admired countries ... Colonized 1884-1914 Modern country: Togo and part of Ghana Post-war: ...

The past 100 years have seen another world war and the rise and fall of the ... (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 to see the modern map) ...

One hundred years ago, war erupted in Europe. In the four years that followed, countries had their economies ravaged, their food supplies exhausted and their young soldiers die by the hundreds of ...

At the outbreak of World War One, Britain had ... Leventhal Map Center Britain dominated much of the world's undersea cable network in 1914 "We were taking a considerable risk," Bourdeaux ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, on the western front, British soldiers heard German troops in the opposite trenches singing carols. They soon joined in with the singing and both sides shouted ‘Merry Christmas!

Jeremy Vine hosts a real-time journey through the events, voices and music of World War One, going back in time to 1914 to experience the war as it happened. Jeremy presents events as they unfold ...

A solider from Brighton who died in the First World War has been buried in Passendale, Belgium, close to the place where he ...

Many of the men of the 47th proceeded back to England to return home, BUT for many of those who had just arrived at the front ...

A History of World War One Poetry examines popular and literary, ephemeral and enduring poems that the cataclysm of 1914-1918 inspired. Across Europe, poets wrestled with the same problem: how to ...

Carter, who died in 1919 in a tragic flying accident, ranked as the 11th greatest Canadian pilot ace in the First World War, ...