A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

- After meeting Foch today, Joffre orders Castlenau to make another major push in Champagne and assigns artillery shells sufficient for the ...

- Kitchener issues orders today for the Indian Corps in France to remain part of the British Expeditionary Force through the next winter.  T...

- Falkenhayn today issues new orders for the Eastern Front which emphasize that once ongoing operations have been completed - especially the...

- In Poland the German advance continues.  To the north, the Germans have closed up to the major fortress at Kovno on the Niemen River, and ...

- In Poland the northern flank of the Russian withdrawal is anchored by the fortress at Osowiec, and though the main body of the German 12th...

- Having received feedback from his subordinates and staff, and with the Chantilly conference at an end, Joffre issues an order today sketch...

- General Alexeiev of North-West Front meets with Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian chief of staff, today at Siedlec to discuss the situation...

- Mackensen's orders to the Austro-Hungarin 4th Army to halt do not reach its headquarters until early this morning, too late to stop th...

- Over the past two days, the German 11th Army has been able to advance northwards into southern Russian Poland without encountering signifi...

- Overnight the Russian forces north of the German 11th Army pull back again, allowing the Germans an uncontested advance that sees them rea...

- With French pressure slackening in Artois, Falkenhayn concludes that 6th Army has broken the enemy offensive.  Given that holding the line...

- The Dardanelles Committee, the supreme decision-making body of the new coalition government, meets in London today, and in light of the co...

- After the formation of the coalition government in Britain, the existing War Council was renamed the Dardanelles Committee, but otherwise ...

- After being pushed back across the San River and losing Rudnik on the 1st, the Austro-Hungarian XIV Corps of 4th Army once again finds its...

- The tiny state of San Marino, falling in line with its far larger Italian neighbour, today declares war on Austria-Hungary. - Overnight ...

- In fierce hand-to-hand fighting, the French 70th Division seizes the cemetery at the village of Ablain, west of Souchez in Artois, and the...

- The formation of the new coalition government in Britain is completed, and the new cabinet formally takes office today.  Prime Minister As...

- After yesterday's shocking news regarding the end of his tenure at the Admiralty, Churchill casts about today for any means of remaini...

- This morning the fuse lit by Sir John French five days earlier explodes on the pages of The Times newspaper, which runs an extensive repo...

- Yesterday the British 28th Division, having suffered greatly in the recent fighting, was withdrawn from the eastern face of the Ypres sali...