Entrance Facing Lake Garda Gabriele D'Annunzio [1863–1938] was one of the most colorful and controversial personalities of the ...

Trooper Fowler During the August 1914 Battle of Le Cateau, Trooper Patrick Fowler of the 11th Hussars, Prince Albert's Own, was c...

Music hall star Harry Lauder composed this shortly after his son John was killed at Pozières in December 1916. During the Second World W...

Captain (later Admiral) William Reginald “Blinker” Hall KCMG CB RN (1870–1943) was the British Director of Naval Intelligence from 1914 to...

The Kansas University Medical Center has made an outstanding start on their effort to tell the story of medicine in the First World ...

Behind the Lines : WWI's little-known story of German occupation, Belgian resistance, and the band of Yanks who helped save millio...

Trench of Death Past the Marker; Yser River to Right On Belgian section of the Western Front at the southern end of the vast inund...

George Gallie Nasmith would never have qualified to be a soldier. A condition called achondroplasia had stunted his growth and he stood ju...

The main Battle for Warsaw (Poland) took place in August of 1915. After Germany’s victory at Gorlice-Tarnów in June of 1915, General Augus...

Francis Ledwidge, the Irish war poet whom we remembered in our 3 August 2013 posting  (link)  was killed in the battle of Passchendaele. ...

By June 1915 everyone knew the land assault at Gallipoli had failed as dismally as the great battleship attack of 18 March. A breakout pla...

What Seems to Be an Overwhelming Force Landing at Suvla Bay The battleship assault of 18 March had failed.  The landings of 25 Apri...

Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead Ballantine Books, 1956. Reprint: Aurum Press Ltd., 2015 For many seasoned students of World War I, ...

There's a good reason why this Tommy showed a happy-go-lucky attitude. Recruiting poster after W H Caffyn, published by Parliame...

In the Footsteps of Alvin York Customs House Museum & Cultural Center Clarksville, Tennessee 9 July 2015 Through 27 September...

Nelly Bly! Nellie Bly! Bring the broom along, We'll sweep the kitchen clean, my dear, and have a little song. "Nellie Bly...

Advancing to the Front at Verdun July 7th - Under a terrible bombardment I arrive at my command post in the bois Fumin at 2 am, follo...

Richthofen's first posting as a pilot of single-seaters was to the Eastern Front. There, the German ace Oswald Boelcke—the first Germa...