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

The year 1914, in which the assassination of an archduke started a war that left 15 million dead, has been written of many times. European leaders have often been portrayed staggering toward World War ...

It’s the night of December 24 1914 on the Western Front. The industrial might of the new 20th century has been focused into a war that has been going on for 8 months. Everyone thought it would be over ...

Even for Americans, whose country did not enter World War I when the rest of the powers did, the year 1914 retains a tragic aura: an assassin’s shot, a continent tumbling into war, the unredeemed ...

“The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began” (Walker & Co.), by Jack Beatty: By 1914, the doddering Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph had been on the throne for more than six ...

What caused Europe to go to war in 1914? The question still haunts those who care to consider how Europe descended into the madness of First World War, even after 100 years. It frustrates the ability ...

World War I, the great wrong turn of modern history, began with a wrong turn. It was made by the driver of the open car carrying the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ...

The trauma of the First World War simply won't go away. Most of the men and women who fought during that conflict are no longer with us (in 2003, there were only 37 British Expeditionary Force ...

"The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began" (Walker & Co.), by Jack Beatty: By 1914, the doddering Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph had been on the throne for more than ...