Follow this timeline to chart the key events and figures ... Before Pearl Harbor, the US military had been totally unprepared for a world war.

A war to end all wars' The First World War was the first truly global conflict – the battle raged not just in the trenches of the Western Front but in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

How real was it? By Dan Cruickshank. Women in uniform were a novelty in 1914 and yet 80,000 women served in the forces as non-combatants during World War One. Discover how one exceptional ...

By war’s end the AEF would number more than one million. No one could have foreseen the savagery unleashed by the world’s first industrialized war, where the efficiency of modern killing ...