It’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers from both sides spontaneously laid down their guns and, for a few hours at least, acted as if ...

According to The History Channel’s Christmas Truce of 1914: ...

1914-1918", David Stevenson's history of the First World War, has been acclaimed as the definitive one-volume account of the conflict. In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass ...

During the First World War, Germany deployed many cruisers, but one stood out. sms Emden, commanded by Karl von Müller, was ...

During the years leading up to 1914, Europe’s upper classes, the landowning aristocracy and the industrial-financial bourgeoisie, had lived through years of almost intolerable tension. Obsessed by the ...

It is because during the First World War, a few Christians suspected that it was the end of the age. But the wars, ...

This past month, Professor John Mearsheimer visited Budapest for the first time to launch the Hungarian translation of his highly-acclaimed book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International ...

In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty ...

Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst‘s Ring of Fire is about the opening salvos of the First World War in 1914. Quickly into Ring, one soon realizes the Lincolnesque sentiment from a 1960s Star ...

An original and dramatic series that views the most violent and significant episodes in modern history from a fresh perspective – not as two world wars, but as a continuous narrative of error, ...

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 ...