During the recovery of bodies following the Battle of Marne in France in 1914, his pipes were accidentally set off, alerting ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most devastating battles in history, with over one million casualties in just five months. Intended to break the stalemate of trench warfare, the offensive ...

Explore the rivalries and tensions that led to the outbreak of World War One. Why did Scots volunteer to fight in World War One? Explore how unemployment, patriotism, propaganda and social ...

The SM U-1 was built before the war, and Germany decommissioned it before the submarine saw a single battle. When WWI kicked off, the U-1 was already obsolete, so it was relegated to training only.

His efforts even achieved him some notoriety back home. As biographer Kenneth Ray Young noted, after a victorious battle in February, "newspaper headlines in the United States proclaimed that in ...

Unfortunately, this means that the bloodiest battles of the war are yet to come, as the Russian military pushes to maximise its military advantage. In keeping with the wishes of Josep Borrell ...