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From decades of rust and earth, see the amazing restoration of a WW1 soldier’s lighter that survived underground for a ...
The HMS M1 was constructed during WW1 but was never used in combat due to fears the Germans would copy its revolutionary design.
Kathleen Bomani, World War I in Africa, Special to CNN A hundred years ago on this day, on August 8th, 1914, the British HMS Asteria and Pegasus protected cruisers bombed Dar-es-Salaam, then the ...
From rusty relics to functional tools, watch the restoration journey of these wire cutters used in WW1 trenches.
The men rarely talked about their role when they returned from the war When US military codes kept being broken by the Germans in WW1 a Native American tribe came to the rescue. They just spoke their ...
Not all crucial battles in World War One took place on the muddy fields of Europe. Some significant fights took place in little-known places much further afield, says the BBC's Deborah Basckin. The ...
Two First World War memorials that were stolen from a church in Chatham have been restored and returned. The commemorative ...
One hundred years ago, she was the fearsome German warship that ruled the waters of Lake Tanganyika; today the MV Liemba serves as the world's oldest passenger ferry. The Goetzen, as she was known ...
Critics and viewers alike have heaped praise on Netflix's new World War One movie All Quiet On The Western Front and called for it to be nominated for an Oscar. The film follows the life of German ...
Women's football was huge during World War One, drawing crowds of 53,000 even after the war had ended. So why did it disappear so dramatically, asks Gemma Fay, captain of the Scottish national female ...
World War I dogfighting game Warplanes: WW1 Fighters has done fairly well for itself since it launched on Oculus’ App Lab platform earlier this year. Now Warplanes: WW1Fighters has made the leap to ...