WW1 Underground Tunnel Warfare: Miners, Mines and Messines 1917
How military miners dug galleries under enemy trenches, what happened at Messines on 7 June 1917, and why the craters are still on the map.
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Balkan Front of World War 1: Serbia and the Salonika Campaign
The theatre where the Great War began on 28 July 1914 and first started to collapse in September 1918: three repelled invasions, the Albanian Golgotha and the Salonika breakthrough.
Read →WW1 Intelligence and Codebreaking: Room 40, Zimmermann, Mata Hari
Room 40 read some 15,000 German signals, the Zimmermann Telegram brought the United States into the war, and Mata Hari turned out to be a media figure. How intelligence was gathered in 1914-1918.
Read →Animals in World War 1: Horses, Pigeons and Dogs at the Front
Roughly 8 million horses, mules and donkeys, over 100,000 homing pigeons and tens of thousands of dogs: how animals carried the logistics, communications and medicine of 1914-1918.
Read →The Christmas Truce of 1914: When the Guns Fell Silent
The unofficial ceasefire on the Western Front, 24-26 December 1914: around 100,000 soldiers, the truth about the football match, and why it never happened again.
Read →WW1 Artillery: The Weapon That Caused Most Casualties
Artillery caused roughly 60% of battlefield casualties in 1914-1918. A guide to gun types, Big Bertha and the Paris Gun, the shell crisis, the creeping barrage and counter-battery fire.
Read →Battle of Jutland and the Blockade: The Surface War That Decided WW1
151 British ships against 99 German, 8,645 dead in 12 hours - and a victory delivered by the blockade rather than the battle.
Read →World War 1 Timeline: 1914-1918 Year by Year
A skeleton of dates: four phases of the war from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918, and three lessons that apply to a Frontkrieg match.
Read →World War 1 Generals: 8 Commanders Who Changed the War
Who commanded the armies of 1914-1918, which decisions actually mattered, and what carries over into Frontkrieg.
Read →WW1 Railways and the Schlieffen Plan: How Train Timetables Decided the War
Mobilization in 1914 ran to the minute: 11,000 troop trains, 6 weeks to beat France, and two incompatible track gauges. How railways decided World War 1.
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