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.
Christmas Truce: The Western Front in 1914
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.
Museum Purchases Artifact that Rewrites British Army’s Racial History
A World War I plaque indicates that Euan Lucie-Smith was the first multiracial officer commissioned in the British Army
Book Review: Pershing’s Lieutenants
Douglas Mastriano recounts the key officers who helped Black Jack Pershing lead the U.S. Army to victory in WWI
Book Review: The Secret History of Soldiers
Tim Cook assesses the performance and staying power of the Canadian Corps during World War I
Italy’s African Eagle
East African orphan Domenico Mondelli won the Italian Armed Forces Silver Medal for Military Valor in World War I
Book Review: Dorwart’s History of the ONI
Jeffrey Dorwart's in-depth history of the Office of Naval Intelligence draws on archival material, memoirs and gripping interviews
M1903 Springfield
American gun designers modeled this combat rifle after the Mauser M1893 used by enemy troops during the 1898 Spanish-American War
Book Review: The Imperial Russian Army
Roger Reese examines how the imperial army's failures contributed to Russia's post–World War I collapse into chaos and communism
Rommel’s Last Day
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
‘Ladies from Hell’: Bagpipers Led the Charge During WWI
Over the top and amid the carnage and confusion of No Man's Land stepped Highland regimental bagpipers.
Book Review: The Fortress by Alexander Watson
Alexander Watson relates the 1914–15 siege of Przemysl, a foretaste of ethnic-cleansing campaigns to come
Captain Truman: A Future President in World War I
How the four-eyed, failed Missouri farmer found his legs as an American officer on the Western Front in 1918
