Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918, despite attempts on both sides to break through.

When Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, few could have known it would reverberate for four years of brutal war ...

The Masses Publishing Co., 1914. Library of Congress A lot more than 2,000 miles separated the Rockefeller estate from Southern Colorado when on Monday April 20, 1914, the first shot was fired at ...

One reason why you probably haven’t heard about the hair-raising British political crisis of 1911 to 1914 — indeed, why hardly anyone has heard about it — is because the catastrophe was ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.

Two Russian armies invaded German East Prussia in August 1914. Rennenkampf's First Army was to converge with the Samsonov's Second Army to give a two-to-one numerical superiority over the German ...

When Europe plunged into war in 1914, Wilson, who like many Americans believed in neutrality, saw America's role as that of peace broker. The sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania by a German ...

Marton, Péter 2019. Reflections on the Analysis of Counterfactual Propositions and Alternative History Speculative Fiction about WWI. Corvinus Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 4, Issue. 2-4, p.

The celestial phenomenon is caused by an ongoing geomagnetic storm. Emma Marsden via MapChart for Newsweek/Emma Marsden via MapChart for Newsweek "The aurora may be faintly visible tonight in ...

But first, German cables had to be dealt with. A telegram arrived at the port of Dover just past midnight on 5 August 1914, the day after Britain declared war on Germany. It was in code ...

Hohenzollern memorial book 1914-1918 Some of the 270 soldiers whose lives were lost in the Winterberg tunnel have now been identified The urgent question is what to do next. Should the bodies be ...

You've got to see the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in the library and in the incredible windows throughout this 1914 Craftsman-style house at 3316 W. Wisconsin Ave. The house, which sits on a ...