Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the ... barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918, despite attempts on both sides to ...

The first shots of World War One are fired in Africa. By 1914 the German Empire has four colonies in East, West and South Africa. British and French forces invade Togoland the site of a key German ...

two in the AT and one in the WT, and a mock examination in the ST. Holger Afflerbach, On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022); Christopher ...

The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to download the Adobe Flash player. On 28th July ...

They are representative of laces made by about 50,000 lace makers throughout Belgium from 1914 through 1919, especially during the time of World War One. In August 1914, the German army invaded and ...

War in Europe began in the ... not only for the United States but across the world. To that end he sent a leading aide, Colonel House, to Europe in the autumn of 1914 in an attempt to broker ...

Auckland Museum Collection: EPH–W1–1–231. An 18-pounder in action ... by New Zealand’s first engagement in World War I. In August 1914, the Advance Party of the Samoa Expeditionary ...

When Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, few could ... years have seen another world war and the rise and fall of ...