Was World War One a triumph of democracy over imperial expansion or an exercise in military futility? Dr Gary Sheffield examines the origins of the conflict. In Blackadder Goes Forth, Baldrick ...

How real was it? By Dan Cruickshank. Women in uniform were a novelty in 1914 and yet 80,000 women served in the forces as non-combatants during World War One. Discover how one exceptional ...

Take a virtual tour of a World War One trench and experience the conditions under which World War One soldiers fought and lived. If the virtual tour doesn't play, you may need to download a free ...

The scale of World War One posed a massive challenge to the relatively small British Army. Bruce Robinson explains how Lord Kitchener avoided introducing conscription by inviting men to volunteer ...

“There is a danger that the WW1 is seen purely 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 ...

author Tom Laemlein provides an exciting window into the infancy of aerial combat in Aircraft Weapons Of World War One: A Photo Study Of Aerial Ordnance In The Great War. Spread out across 160 ...