THE SAD TALE OF THE BONUS MARCHERS Bonus Marchers on the Capitol Steps Following World War I, the U.S. federal government anticipat...

Contributed by Jeffrey Aarnio, ABMC Butte de Vauquois: Once Site of a Forest Village Located roughly 20 kilometers west-northwest...

KINGDOMS FALL-The Laxenburg Message By Christopher Clark. Published by Amazon Digital Series, 2013 The centenary of the onset o...

You may have seen her name in the news during the Iraq War. Gertrude Bell (1868–1926) was an English traveler, writer, archaeologist,...

Starvation is one of those unpleasant topics glossed over in most general histories of the Great War.  Refugees, prisoners of war, the Arm...

For four centuries the sleepy mountain town of Cortina d'Ampezzo led a peaceful existence under the Hapsburg Empire (not count...

This week we visit some of the most famous sites on the south side of the Menin Road.  Please keep in mind we are just showing a s...

Contributed by Jim Patton Regimental Badge The Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry was formed on 10 August 1914 by Andrew G...

Created by Assistant Editor Kimball Worcester It was not just the cousins Nicky, Willy, and Georgie who went to war in 1914. Cl...

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark. Published by Harper Collins, 2013 In The Sleepwalkers C...

Contributed by Tony Langley Possibly, you think in terms of Ghent in medieval terms — the affluent wool-producing port and capital of Fl...

The First World War had its own Super Bowl! The divisions and large bases of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe had their own foot...

Preliminaries Germany only had about 28 U-boats available in the early months of the war, but they achieved some spectacular successes: ...

Throughout the war, the Western Front moved up and down the Menin Road. It was a focal point for action every year of the war. Pl...

Click on Image to Expand British RN Troopship Walmer Castle The father of dazzle camouflage,  Norman Wilkinson, was a marine ...