For me, a fascinating part of exploring any dimension of the Great War is gathering further evidence to validate my theory that the ...

By Jim Patton My good friend John Hambidge, MBE, of Macclesfield, Cheshire, recently sent this to me: Regimental Badge My wife...

Soldiers in Petrograd at the Time, 1 This was the first official decree of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' ...

The Cartographer of No Man's Land by P.S.Duffy Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2013 This is P. S. Duffy's firs...

One of my favorite commentators, Canadian ex-pat Mark Steyn, loves the music of the war, especially—and I agree with him 100% on this—th...

The other night — thanks to Netflix — the Lady and I watched Steve Martin, as gangster Vinnie Antonelli, turn the Witness Protection Prog...

Most of the Doughboys who went "Over There" in the First World War were wearing  the 1911 Campaign Hat (or the 1912 Marine...

The Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace located at Le Bourget airport in Paris opened a new exhibition in October focused on the air war ...

Albanian Declaration of Independence in Vlorë, 1912 Out of the settlement of the Balkan Wars of 1912 & 1913 evolved a decision ...

Crew and Officers, USS Oklahoma , 1917 Today, on the anniversary of the Day of Infamy, let's look at the ships of the Pacific ...

Wales and World War One by Robin Barlow Gomer Press, 2014 Many histories of the First World War have focused on military...

By Matt Church Ferdinand, King of Romania, During the War On 5 December 1916, the Romanian capital of Bucharest fell to enemy forces...

 In his autobiography, Siegfried’s Journey , Sassoon gives an account of the writing of this poem: "One evening in the middle o...

My friend, historian and novelist Thomas Fleming, once pointed out that at his desk, the Kaiser sat in a saddle because it made him feel ...

The Doughboys' newspaper, STARS AND STRIPES , welcomed poetry contributions from the troops. After the Armistice, entries came fl...