In the early stages of the First World War, Brits and Germans came together on the frontlines to pause the fighting for ...

The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

Why does the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand -- the event that lit the fuse of World War One 100 years ago Saturday -- still resonate so powerfully? Virtually nobody believes World War Three ...

The Eastern Front. By Nick Lloyd. Viking; 672 pages; £30. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in August; $42 Just 29 years old, Karl I was desperate to lead Austria-Hungary out of the first ...

Canadian soldiers took many German artillery pieces home as “war trophies” after the First World War. Almost all have disappeared. But more than a century later, one has turned up three metres under ...

World War I was one of the biggest conflicts in human history, known as the “war to end all wars." While Hollywood has a larger fascination with World War II, which has resulted in the release of ...

When I taught history, students often asked me why it seemed there were no "good guys" in World War I. Now I was clear part of the reason is because in real life there are no discreet "good guys and ...