Life in the trenches of World War One was very difficult. The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in 1916, was the deadliest day in the history of the British army. The end of World War One and ...

World War One was one of the great turning points of modern history. We know where the war started: in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, when a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip ...

Claudius Schulze A cemetery at Anzac Cove, today a place of pilgrimage, holds the remains of soldiers killed in one of history’s bloodiest ... Allied failures of World War I.

The opening series in the BBC’s four years of First World War coverage, Jeremy Paxman’s four-part documentary for BBC 1 will draw upon his expertise of British history and examine how the ...

Drawing on personal stories and testimonies and illustrated ... Professor of History at Cambridge University, presents a five-part series on the outbreak of World War One. He explains the reasons ...

Why did World War One start? What were the causes of World War One and how did the war develop? Find out in our guide. What role did the British Empire play in the war? What role did the British ...