WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? Despite the thousands of deaths attributed to the use of the machine-gun in WW1, did its awesome threat actually ...
One vessel was the enormous Olympic – sister ship of the Titanic. Olympic became a troop ship during WW1 and was repainted in dazzle. She shows some of the techniques used by dazzle designers.
Thanks for that. Ian McMillan reads and analyses Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and asks: do we misunderstand WW1 because we focus on poems like Owen's? WW1: Why was the first day of ...
WW1: Can the Treaty of Versailles help us tackle climate change? documentWW1: Can the Treaty of Versailles help us tackle climate change? BBC correspondent David Shukman asks whether the legacy of ...
Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. In the east, the Russian Army was able to mobilise more quickly than the Germans had anticipated and began advancing towards Germany’s borders.
The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916, the ...
Dan Snow describes the food rations supplied for British soldiers during WW1 and compares these with what German soldiers had. The value of different foods is touched on and we learn that ...
Falkenhayn's successors, Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff ... They fought for control of the Kamina wireless station. WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?
Erich Schwartzel covers the film industry in The Wall Street Journal's Los Angeles bureau. He joined the Journal in 2013 and has written dozens of front-page stories on life and business in ...
United Refining Company chairman and CEO John Catsimatidis discusses issues facing New York City on ‘Mornings with Maria,’ as Mayor Eric Adams faces mounting legal trouble. Gatestone Institute ...