The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

The First World War transformed global warfare, spreading fighting across continents, seas, and the air between 1914 and 1918. Governments mobilised i.

The First World War may have begun long before the first shots were fired. This documentary examines the decisions of European leaders in 1914 to understand whether the conflict was unavoidable or the ...

World War I was the laboratory that transformed airplanes from vehicles of limited capability into reliable weapons of war. The “World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation” exhibition highlights both ...

Alice Vernon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Caroline Finley, center, with Château Ognon (upper left) and colleagues in an album belonging to her great-nephew. courtesy Peter McElroy Jr. In late March 1918, the German Army began pursuing the ...

This short tells a story about what would happen if First World War happened today? With a Serbian rebel starting it with a Austrian politician, WW1 would happen again. Austria and Hungary would ...