First World War

Only crack shots among the ’knights of the air’ survived battle against better equipped and more experienced German pilots

Simon Garfield examines how railways and wars, among other factors, have fed our dependence on the ticking clock

Hoover was viewed as the most competent man in America for feats such as saving 10 million from starvation during WWI

Her latest book explores the life of single mother Amelia Rosselli, a playwright and activist at a time when Mussolini decreed women were second-class

The Great War marked the true beginning of the American century. But 100 years later, “the war to end all wars” is largely forgotten in the U.S.

This was not a day for dry-eyed analysis. Instead it was a day for feeling and communing with the dead, and commune we did.

In the weeks leading up to the attack on Vimy, the Canadian Corps commanders and engineers meticulously drilled their minute-by-minute plan

A captivating new book describes how Claude Monet painted his placid scenes with First World War shells sounding in the distance

1916 set the stage for the revolutions in Russia that would cast their shadow over not just the First World War but the entire 20th century

The U.S. greeted the outbreak of the First World War with disbelief, but by late 1916 thousands of Americans were already personally involved in the war