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 ...

Titled Moonrakers, the book tells the story of the 2nd Battalion, the Wiltshire Regiment, during the First World War. Co-authored by London historian Bob Jones and fellow writer Nick Edwards, the book ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Christmas Eve in 1914, a light snowfall began to dust the Western Front, unable to settle on the muddy, waterlogged ground that had been obliterated by months of warfare. Meanwhile, as the smell of ...

On a cold Christmas Eve in 1914, something extraordinary happened along the Western Front of World War I. The sound of gunfire faded, and in its place came laughter, songs, and the thud of a football ...

"The First World War was a watershed in human history. Beginning in the European summer of 1914, the conflict reverberated around the world, destroying four empires and costing nearly ten million ...

It is because during the First World War, a few Christians suspected that it was the end of the age. But the wars, ...

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Vol. 17, No. 4, Special Issue: Americans and WWI: 100 Years Later (October 2018), pp. 636-649 (14 pages) This essay investigates the motives by ...

In 1914, Hungarian archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian gunman while out and about in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Due to established alliances and a period of ...

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 ...