Eyes All Over The Sky : Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War
After the first successful flight by the Wright brothers in 1903, the age of aviation was born, and by 1910 army commanders in the United States and E...
Fatal Fortress : The Guns & Fortifications of Singapore 1819-1956
The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 was arguably the greatest disaster suffered by the British Empire. Between 1923 and 1938, the Singapore naval base...
Feeding Tommy : Battlefield Recipes from the First World War
According to Napoleon, an army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too - yet have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are f...
Edith Wharton, the author of classic novels including The Age of Innocence, was an American living in Paris when war broke out in 1914. In the months that followed, she w...
Fighting The Great War At Sea : Strategy, Tactics & Technology
The overriding image of the First World War is the bloody stalemate of the Western Front, but although much of the action did occur on land, the overall sha...
Final Season : The Footballers who Fought and Died in the Great War
A moving narrative history of the professional footballers who fought and died in World War I, with a foreword by Gary Lineker. In 1914, as today, succ...
Never before have so many resources been available to the family historian tracing Great War ancestors, both online and locally but the past dearth of easily accessible m...
After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7.30 am. On 1 July 1916 the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on th...
The First World War profoundly changed British society. The armed forces' need for mass recruitment saw the workforce severely depleted, with women stepping up to shoulder the burden;...
2014 marks 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. First World War Posters is a striking and insightful foray into what this conflict meant to people all over the world and how their...
Although tanks have become a symbol of military power, the first tanks were created as a temporary solution to the deadlock created by trench warfare. The early designs were unsophisticated and had...
Five Days From Defeat : How Britain Nearly Lost the First World War
On 21 March 1918 Germany initiated one of the most ferocious and offensives of the First World War. During the so-called Kaiserschlacht, German troops ...