A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

- Joffre approves Castlenau's proposed plan for the fall offensive in Champagne today, with one revision: the French commander-in-chief ...

- For the past ten days the German Army of the Niemen has been advancing in Courland.  Despite the relatively small size of the German force...

- The German offensive on the Eastern Front opens today with simultaneous advances in Courland and central Poland.  While the Army of the Ni...

- In Artois the French IX and XXI Corps have repeatedly assaulted German positions on and north of the Lorette Spur.  Though small sections ...

- This morning the passenger liner Lusitania approaches the Irish coast en route to Liverpool, carrying 1265 passengers and 700 crew.  Buil...

- Yesterday evening the German XXVI Reserve Corps, having assembled sufficient gas cylinders, launched an attack between Pilkem and St. Juli...

- Today advancing German cavalry divisions seize the town of Shavli in Courland, which had been set on fire by the retreating Russians. - ...

- In Courland the German 3rd and Bavarian Cavalry Divisions have covered seventy-five kilometres in the past forty-eight hours and reached t...

- At Ypres the commander of the German XXVI Corps decides that there are too few gas cylinders available for immediate use, and thus calls o...