Prewar —Still Life with Metronome ,  1909  Georges Braque (1882–1963) was a modern artist who painted in the Cubist style. Before the war,...

Wojciech Korfanty (born 20 April 20 1873, Siemianowice, Upper Silesia, Ger. [now in Poland]—died 17 August 1939, Warsaw) was a political lea...

British 60-Pounder at Ypres, Early War The Story Begins Here James Patton When the Race to the Sea was over, and the opposing forces were bo...

It All Started When the BEF Arrived  The dramatic and tragic story of the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell is so moving that it overwhelms th...

Reims 1918 The dynamic of destruction was not a law of nature, it was man-made, capable of  infinite variation ... capable of being stopped ...

I've been reading all sorts of stuff about World War I since about 1960, but these were all new to me.  MH AUNT SALLY Ration truck. From...

In the 19th century, Mongolia was absorbed into the Chinese Empire of the Manchurian Qing dynasty, which ruled it as a vassal state. However...

BAR — Original Version By Bruce N. Canfield Soon after the United States became embroiled in the war, the legendary American arms designer, ...

Edward M. Coffman, Historian of the Great War Editor's Introduction:  My friend and early mentor Mac Coffman (1929–2020) served as an a...

SMS Leipzig Under Fire at the Falklands On the morning of 8 December 1914, in preparation for a dash home to Germany, Vice Admiral Maximilia...

In the summer of 1919, a young Lieutenant Colonel—only four years out of West Point—named Dwight D. Eisenhower participated in the first Arm...