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.
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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 →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.
Read →World War 1 in Africa and Asia: The Forgotten Fronts
Four campaigns in Africa, Tsingtao and Samoa, 14,000 men against 114,000 and the last surrender on 25 November 1918.
Read →The WW1 Home Front: Women, Factories and Rationing
By 1918 about a million British women worked in munitions. A breakdown of the WW1 home front: factories, ration cards, the Turnip Winter and the vote as payment for four years of labour.
Read →Why Did the US Enter World War 1? Causes and Consequences
The United States declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917. Here are the three reasons - submarines, the Zimmermann Telegram and money - and the real numbers.
Read →WW1 Medicine: Triage, Field Hospitals and the 1918 Pandemic
How armies between 1914 and 1918 learned to triage casualties, evacuate them along a chain of stations and transfuse stored blood - and why the 1918 flu killed more people than the war.
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