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 ...

After more than 100 years, we have the first actual image of the wreck of a sunken U.S. Navy submarine from World War I. A recent expedition to survey it and other lost military hardware has captured ...

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 ...

November 11, 1918 - At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the armistice to end World War I was signed. Reports of negotiations between the U.S. and Germany led people to believe an end ...

The perennially controversial question of “Who Started World War I,” is revisited by Prof. Mombauer (Open University, U.K.), in this thoroughly revised edition of her The Origins of the First World ...