By 1917, the meaninglessness of the sacrifice had become clear enough to the combatants, if not to civilians back home: ...

The Winnipeg Free Press installed a three-tone steam whistle atop its Carlton Street building in 1917 that was said to be ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

China, Russia and even U.S. allies have developed retaliatory options that could deeply hurt America’s economy and standard ...

We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across ...

In the interwar years, the United States prepared for all kinds of future conflicts, including against its allies. Jonny ...

Men joined up and fought in World War I, also known as the Great War, for all kinds of reasons; some fought for the Empire, ...

There Second battle of the Piavealso nicknamed “battle of the solstice” From Gabile d’Annunzio, he was fought Between 15 and ...

on November 11 to honour the end of the First World War because the War ended ‘at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th ...

The 1st Battalion was the first infantry unit recruited for the AIF in New South Wales during the First World War. The battalion was raised within ... the guns fell silent. The November armistice was ...

The 8th Battalion was among the first infantry units raised for the AIF during the First World War. Like the 5th ... At 11 am on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent. The November armistice was ...