A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

- Today Conrad achieves one of the great objectives of the war, one that however has nothing to do with the battlefield; instead it is marri...

- Overnight the portion of the British Guards Division still in the line digs a new trench east of Loos parallel to the Lens-La Bassée road,...

- The finance ministers of France and Britain, meeting at Boulogne today, agree to float a joint loan in the United States, though it will f...

- After elements of the French II and VI Corps attacked the German 9th Division on the western face of the St.-Mihiel salient six days ago a...

- Another diversionary attack is launched today by the French army, this time against the northern flank of the St.-Mihiel salient, where re...

- Earlier this month the leadership of the German armed forces prevailed on the Kaiser to loosen his restrictions regarding the bombing of L...

- Over the past two days the British have attacked German lines near Festubert, but with the latter having received reinforcements, the Brit...

- Financial representatives from Britain, France, and Russia meet today in Paris to discuss the financing of the war.  Britain objects to a ...

- The decision of Duke Albrecht yesterday to suspend offensive operations at Ypres is approved today by Falkenhayn.  For several weeks he ha...

- Though the German breakthroughs of yesterday have been contained, there is still great concern among British commanders early this morning...

- At Ypres the day is cold and wet, mist turning to rain in the afternoon.  The British and French notice a distant lessening in the frequen...

- This morning, Lieutenant Watteau, a flyer attached to the Paris garrison, conducts a reconnaissance flight to the east of the city, which ...

- The German 1st Army crosses the Gette River in Belgium today, and find that the Belgian army has retreated in the night.  The Germans are ...

- Today the advance of the 1st and 2nd German Armies through Belgium is in full motion - 1st Army is attacking the lines of the main Belgian...

- Joffre issues Special Instruction No. 10 at 7pm this evening, regarding the operations of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Armies.  The first two are...

- As of today all of the forts north and east of Liège have fallen, opening the roads north of the city and allowing 1st Army to begin its a...

- Oskar Potiorek, the military governor of Bosnia, is appointed to command all Austro-Hungarian forces on the Serbian Front.  He has a spe...

- At dawn, Goeben  and Breslau  arrive at the Italian post of Messina on Sicily in order to replenish their stock of coal.  The Italian auth...

- In many of the larger cities of Europe, enormous crowds form, in part to celebrate the coming of war (in the belief it will be both short ...