The First World War was the first conflict in which chemistry was used for both offensive and defensive strategies. With Germany leading the way in the chemical sciences, it was imperative for the ...

A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...

All along the Western Front of the First World War, which stretched for some 700 km from the North Sea to the Franco-Swiss border, a series of 139 funerary and memorial sites bear witness to the ...

It was the first ‘total war’ and it blew apart the certainties ... Jeremy Vine hosts a real-time journey through the events, voices and music of World War One, going back in time to 1914 ...

Relentless shelling and bombing laid waste to the town of Ypres in Belgium during the First World War. Seen here in an aerial shot on New Year's Day 1915, the landscape is scarred and buildings ...