London Double-Deckers on the Way to the Western Front A Bus for London  Developed by the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC), the B-ty...

[During his tenure] Bismarck did not intend to enter into war against Russia for Austria-Hungary’s interest on the Balkan Peninsula. The...

All this it is our duty to bear

This month's ST. MIHIEL TRIP-WIRE is dedicated to the story of the 1920 Olympiad, held in Antwerp, which had been occupied for nearly t...

This letter from schoolboy Patrick Blundstone to his father contains a fascinating eye-witness account of the destruction in September 1916 ...

  World War I German chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn is a testament to the ability of Western military officers to understand, appreciat...

[ Editor's note:   The work reviewed here is a little off our usual World War I focus, but it is an important work on military matters t...

Keith Muchowski This past April we highlighted the Great War experience of New York’s “flying congressman” Fiorello La Guardia ( Here...

Towering over the village of Kobarid (formerly Caporetto) is the Krn Massif, shown above, dominated by two peaks. The shark fin-shaped f...

The Devil is coming

Click on Image to Enlarge The entry of the Ottoman Empire into the First World War in October 1914 threatened British interests in the Middl...

Town Square Armentières When the belligerents established their lines in October 1914, the town of Armentières found itself near the front...

By James Patton In the legends and traditions of the Great War there is a popularized event known as the Kindermord von Ypern , ...

Leave Train Arriving at Victoria Station by H. M. Tomlinson, 1922 Coming out of Victoria Station into of London again, on leave fr...

  On 1 April 1917, near the town of St. Quentin, budding war poet Wilfred Owen led his platoon through an artillery barrage to the Germ...