A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

- The Landships Committee has reported to Churchill the preliminary results of its investigations of possible vehicles that could be adapted...

- In the Vosges the French 1st Chasseur Brigade attacks German positions on Hartmannswillerkopf, and are able to capture the first two enemy...

- Though no substantial success has been achieved in the fighting in Champagne, Joffre believes that the Germans are wearing down and that a...

- As the major combatants seek to increase the production of war material, one means that comes to the fore is 'dilution', whereby s...

- Churchill responds to Fisher's memorandum of the 25th, arguing that while maintaining superiority in the North Sea is the most importa...

- After the German advance towards Le Four de Paris in the Argonne on the 11th, today elements of 34th Division expand the German salient by...

- As the Zeppelins L 3  and L 4  return to their airbase of Fuhlsbüttel at 940am and 947am, the news of the first bombs dropped on Britain b...

- After closing on the outbreak of war in August, the London Stock Exchange reopens today. - The ability of the French army to increase it...