Germany plans to attack Paris and surprise the French by marching through neutral territory. On August 2, 1914 Germany asked ...

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As the American Chemical Society enters its 150th year, C&EN recalls just some of the society’s illustrious roster of ...

Germany entered World War I confident and united — and ended it starving, divided, and defeated. Follow the journey from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The tensions building up in world capitalism erupted in the First World War, which, with all its horrors, announced the opening of the epoch of the “death agony of capitalism” and of the world ...

On the eve of World War One, as German forces demanded safe passage through Belgium on their way to attack France, the Belgian king refused to stand aside. What came next was unimaginable. Cities were ...

Analysis: a photo from Greece in 1915 is used every year as proof of a heavily mythologised Christmas 1914 truce football match Rising to head a ball in joyous abandon, British soldiers enjoy a game ...