World War I
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Peter Hart, oral historian at London's Imperial War Museum, reveals a trove of research on the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.
Karen Sutherland |
Published: November 11, 2011 at 1:02 pm
How the red poppy and a poem by a World War I battlefield surgeon came to mean so much.
Published: November 08, 2011 at 3:25 pm
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Published: November 08, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Brawny sailors load a gun in a navy recruiting poster from World War I. (Library of Congress)
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Published: September 09, 2011 at 11:30 am
Authors Graydon Tunstall and Richard DiNardo contribute toward our understanding of the World War I Eastern Front.
Alfred S. Bradford Jr. |
Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am
A young U.S. Army lieutenant gets a taste of the horror of mechanized warfare in September 1918, when American troops massed in a valley in northeastern France as part of the final major campaign of World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
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Published: May 03, 2011 at 4:55 am
Gallery of images from the Meuse-Argonne offensive in World War I.
David Lauterborn |
Published: March 02, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Frank Buckles, 110, the last surviving American soldier from World War I, died on February 27, 2011
Jennifer E. Berry |
Published: February 08, 2011 at 5:54 pm
The French army was in a precarious position in the summer of 1915, as its offensives bogged down and casualties skyrocketed. L’Illustration, a popular image-driven newspaper, encouraged renowned Paris-based photojournalist Léon Gimpel to find subjects worthy of color photographs—a rarity at a time when the heavy equipment and complex processing of color newspaper photography meant few photographers could shoot for that medium. Inspired by poster artist Francisque Poulbot’s comic and colorful illustrations of children playing at war, Gimpel went to work.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 06, 2011 at 9:24 pm
Most of us think of World War II as the "big one". That might not be true if you live in the small French village of Paimpont.
Edward G. Lengel |
Published: January 06, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Its defense by overmatched American troops exemplified the murderous futility of Western Front fighting
O'Brien Browne |
Published: November 10, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Despite its enduring fame, the Red Baron’s slow, crash-prone plane was no great fighting machine.
Published: November 10, 2010 at 5:28 pm
John M. Taylor reviews Joseph Maiolo's book Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941.
Richard A. Martin |
Published: September 22, 2010 at 11:58 am
Self-taught filmmaker Jan Goldstein got tired of waiting for someone to make an in-depth documentary about pilots and planes of World War I and created 'The Great War in the Air' on his own.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: May 23, 2010 at 10:08 pm
What is a "decisive victory"? How often does it happen? Not as often as we'd like to think.
Published: February 23, 2010 at 9:29 am
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