Contributed by John Beatty USS Olympia at Philadelphia USS Olympia (US Navy designations C-6/CA-15/CL-15/IX-40) is a protected...

The Ypres Salient, of course is a major destination for any visitor to the Western Front and just jam-packed with notable sites t...

The U.S. Army Chaplaincy was to be an integral part of the great mobilization of the American Expeditionary Force. By the end of the w...

I imagine readers have probably wondered if the soldiers of the Great War had much time to exercise and indulge their sporting and no...

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne Published Originally by Macmillan, 1962 If you want to know about the Battle of...

André Maginot, Verdun, and the Maginot Line by Christina Holstein The Battle of Verdun was characterized by an intense ten-month bomb...

Soldat Jean-Louis Rouly, 138th Inf. Rgt., French Army, Near Souain, Champagne Contributed by our friend, and great-grandson of Rou...

One of the most memorable literary traditions of the Great War involves the postwar pilgrimage of VAD nurse and author Vera Brittain to ...

We presented this article on World War I sites in Brussels last year, but we thought we should republish it since it is an essenti...

Click on Image to Expand Dinant, Belgium, on the River Meuse is where French and German forces first fought each other  ...

Last Friday in our Western Front article about Fort de Loncin, we mentioned that the commander of the Liège Forts, Lieutenant-General Coun...

On this day in 1918, President Woodrow Wilson first enunciated his Fourteen Points speech to Congress. After several efforts to arti...

The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin Published by Faber and Faber, Ltd., 2011 Those silly little trains. I have seen photogr...

François Flameng (along with Georges Scott) was one the most renowned illustrators of the Great War in France. He was a talented and ...

Contributed by Sidney Clark That a large number of Americans volunteered for British and Commonwealth forces in the Great War is well k...

The M1916 Stahlhelm Helmet Contributed by Ralph Reiley The M1916 Stahlhelm The German Pickelhaube (spiked helmet) was found to...