From 1881 right up until World ... map illustrates where the battle lines stood on August 1, 1916, exactly two years into the war. Russia fared poorly, losing control of territory in what's now ...

When those empires collapsed after World War I, the Poles took advantage of the chaos to resurrect their nation. Yet as they had for centuries, Poland and Russia again would go to war. One reason ...

One of Russia’s motives ... for a while and included land in Poland, France and Lithuania, whereas The Habsburg monarchy was essentially the pre-first world war name for Austria.

It is believed there are 39 British prisoners of war buried in the mass ... German prisoner of war camp during World War One have been erected in northern Poland. The men were held alongside ...