
The Self-Made Hero of WWI
Arthur Guy Empey parlayed his brief service in World War I into a best-selling book and a career in Hollywood. Then he lost everything.
Arthur Guy Empey parlayed his brief service in World War I into a best-selling book and a career in Hollywood. Then he lost everything.
In the lead-up to Christmas 1914 soldiers on either side of the Western Front no man’s land set aside fear and their weapons to exchange surreal holiday greetings.
A World War I plaque indicates that Euan Lucie-Smith was the first multiracial officer commissioned in the British Army
Douglas Mastriano recounts the key officers who helped Black Jack Pershing lead the U.S. Army to victory in WWI
Tim Cook assesses the performance and staying power of the Canadian Corps during World War I
East African orphan Domenico Mondelli won the Italian Armed Forces Silver Medal for Military Valor in World War I
Jeffrey Dorwart's in-depth history of the Office of Naval Intelligence draws on archival material, memoirs and gripping interviews
American gun designers modeled this combat rifle after the Mauser M1893 used by enemy troops during the 1898 Spanish-American War
Roger Reese examines how the imperial army's failures contributed to Russia's post–World War I collapse into chaos and communism
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel hoped to find safety in the remote village of Herrlingen, but the town became a Nazi death trap for him in October 1944
Over the top and amid the carnage and confusion of No Man's Land stepped Highland regimental bagpipers.
Alexander Watson relates the 1914–15 siege of Przemysl, a foretaste of ethnic-cleansing campaigns to come
How the four-eyed, failed Missouri farmer found his legs as an American officer on the Western Front in 1918