Propaganda and conscription Many young men who joined up to fight in WW1 thought that it would be a brief and glorious ... was the deadliest day in the history of the British army.

Britain wasn't the only nation to field tanks, of course. The French Schneider C.A.1 was France's first tank, with 121 of the ...

James A. McDevitt, a balloon observer in France during World War I, survived being shot of the sky three times in 24 hours.

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That's because these biographers of the primordial deal in increments of millions and even billions of years as they struggle to reconstruct our planet's life history, which is so vast that those ...

They were mainly German, Austrian and Hungarian men working and living in Britain who were regarded as "enemy aliens" at the outbreak of World War One. 5. During World War Two, British tarpaulin ...

A History of World War One Poetry examines popular and literary, ephemeral and enduring poems that the cataclysm of 1914-1918 inspired. Across Europe, poets wrestled with the same problem: how to ...

The war in Europe began in September 1939 when Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland. Using Blitzkrieg tactics the ...

The grandson of a Canadian immigrant, he came of age in Jefferson City and served in combat during World War I. He would go ...

It's imperative that all Americans know the history of Veterans Day so that we ... marking the end of WWI. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first Armistice Day in 1919, emphasizing peace ...

As the government announces a new £30m fund for grassroots women’s football across England, Strong Women looks back at the centuries-long history of ... During WW1, as many women in Britain ...

The laces made in Belgium during World War One are an important part of the lace holdings of the Division of Home and Community Life’s Textile Collection in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...