Italy entered World War I expecting honor and territorial gains, but instead faced catastrophic battles, political turmoil, ...

It’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers from both sides spontaneously laid down their guns and, for a few hours at least, acted as if ...

The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

It was the biggest Russian victory during the First World War, and at the same time the most costly in terms of human lives.