On the eve of World War One, as German forces demanded safe passage through Belgium on their way to attack France, the Belgian king refused to stand aside. What came next was unimaginable. Cities were ...
The first battle between Germany and Britain in World War One took place not on the muddy fields of France but in the scrub land of Togo. Keen to compete with its European rivals, Germany acquired ...
LONDON -- On Jan. 1, 1917, a young man from Lancashire started a diary. It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a soldier ...