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

July 1, 1916—the first day of the Battle of the Somme became the bloodiest day in British military history. Over 57,000 soldiers were lost in mere hours, in a battle that was both a disaster and a ...

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 ...

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 ...