On the night of December 24, 1914, amid the devastation of World War I’s Western Front, soldiers on both sides found a moment ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A war that would eclipse all other conflicts up until that time, taking the nickname “The Great War,” and what we know as World War I, began on July 28, 1914. The war traced ...
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2019. The story of the Christmas Truce of 1914 is often considered “played out,” especially in historical circles, but it is a compelling tale; ...
The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would ...
After 1890 important changes took place within the German Empire both in domestic and foreign policy. The period was marked ...
Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst‘s Ring of Fire is about the opening salvos of the First World War in 1914. Quickly into Ring, one soon realizes the Lincolnesque sentiment from a 1960s Star ...
"The Killing Season" reframes how we understand 1914, not as an inevitable slide into stalemate, but as a season of decisive ...
Why does the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand -- the event that lit the fuse of World War One 100 years ago Saturday -- still resonate so powerfully? Virtually nobody believes World War Three ...
Spain's King Alfonso XIII aided families of missing WWI soldiers Palace archive keep thousands of letters of soldiers' relatives Letters are testimony of war's devastation MADRID, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A ...