NEWSLETTER (£) European leaders are still not thinking seriously enough about how peace should be made ...

Why the British army is so unprepared to send troops to Ukraine. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that Britain is “ready and willing to contribute to security guarantees to Ukraine by putting our ...

The Russo-Japanese War and the Western Front were the first major conflicts in world history in which soldiers had a better ...

More than 100,000 Indians fought for France in 1914. Ten thousand never ... Some of the letters of Indian soldiers to their families were released by the British Library, revealing their ...

When Britain declared war on Germany on August 4th 1914, tens of thousands of Scottish men quickly volunteered to join the British Army. In this article we'll look at why so many Scots volunteered ...

Three medals awarded to the first soldier from the King's Shropshire Light Infantry 6th Battalion killed in action during the ...

Depending on your perspective, German aviator and Patagonia explorer Gunther Pluschow was either phenomenally lucky, or ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916 ...

The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 was developed by a team of engineers including Henry Folland, John Kenworthy, and Major ...

Spain's King Alfonso XIII aided families of missing WWI soldiers Palace archive keep ... story quickly spread through France, then to the British and German press, then to the rest of Europe.

Spain was neutral in the 1914-18 war ... his nephew and a friend. The British writer Rudyard Kipling requested information about his missing son, and Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno wrote asking ...

A collection of rare medals belonging to a Battle of France war hero who survived being captured by the Germans is set to ...