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The French “Red Zone” Is So Dangerous, It Still Is A No-Go Area 100 Years After WWI

The Zone Rouge (Red Zone) is a region near Verdun, France spanning some 460 square miles of mostly virgin forest – at least on the…

Alvin York, Who Single-Handedly Captured 132 Enemy Soldiers In World War One

Sergeant Alvin York was seemingly born to a hardscrabble existence and anonymity in death, but World War One changed that forever. The story of York is…

Fromelles: The Worst 24 Hours In Australia’s Military History – July 19th 1916

Horrifying loss was the defining feature of the First World War. For much of 1916, the focus of that horror on the Western Front was…

The Pals Battalions: Comradeship and Tragedy in the First World War

Few stories better exemplify the spirit of the First World War than that of the Pals battalions. These British units embodied comradeship, courage, unwavering national…

The Lion of Africa: Paul von Lettow Vorbeck: Germany’s WW1 Guerilla Commander In East Africa

In March of 1919, while Germany was recovering from its defeat in the First World War, its people starving and its army in ruins, a…

The Commander Of The Lost Battalion From The Meuse-Argonne Offensive

Colonel Charles White Whittlesey earned his fame when he was a major in World War I with the American Expeditionary Force. He led a battalion…

John McCrae: Officer, Doctor, and Author of WWIs Most Famous Poem

More so than any other modern war and certainly more than any war fought before it, The First World War was the age of the “war…

How Erwin Rommel Earned Germany’s Highest Honor, as a Mere Lieutenant

Erwin Rommel was undoubtedly one of the finest generals of the Second World War, his strategic mind and patient approach led his men to victory…

The Most Gigantic Explosions of The First World War

One of the common techniques used in warfare during the First World War was mining. There were various mines planted under trenches, then detonated to…

“The Great War Illustrated – 1916” – Review by Mark Barnes

I am really pleased to see the third volume in this exemplary series from Messrs Langford and Holroyd. There have been countless photo archive books…

VC: In WWI Horace Augustus Curtis Charged The Enemy Trenches, Capturing 6 Machine Guns and 100 Infantry

Horace Augustus Curtis wasn’t supposed to be a war hero. He was supposed to be a nobody who lived and died in relative poverty in…

World War One – The Infamous Battle of the Somme

One of the most destructive events of the First World War, the Battle of the Somme was a 142-day campaign including a series of smaller…