A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

- Conrad orders the Austro-Hungarian navy to institute a permanent patrol of the Albanian coast to disrupt enemy troop transports and suppli...

- As the Serbian army begins the most arduous stage of its retreat, the high command publishes the following: The only way out of this gra...

- The head of the Directorate of Military Aviation at the War Office in London today authorizes the expansion of the Royal Flying Corps, whi...

- Overnight violent thunderstorms strike Flanders, and heavy rains turn the trench floors into mud, slowly the final movement of supplies up...

- On the Eastern Front, the corps of the Austro-Hungarian 4th and 1st Armies are ordered by Conrad to make 'an immediate, decisive attac...

- Overnight four German Zeppelin undertake a bombing raid on London.  Two turn back due to engine trouble, and the captain of L11 manages t...

- The French government passes the Dalbiez Law today to regulate the industrial workforce.  While allowing for the conscription of unskilled...

- In Russian Poland, the primary axes of the German advance have been from the northwest across the Narew River, and from the south between ...

- After the Morane fighter of Frenchman Roland Garros crash-landed behind German lines on April 18th, aircraft designer Anthony Fokker had e...

- In southern Poland the Russian XVI Corps, now reinforced by the Grenadier Corps, continues to confine the German Landwehr Corps to the nar...

- In southern Poland the German force under General Woyrsch arrives at the mouth of the Radomka River on the west bank of the Vistula, downr...

- In central Poland the Russians fall back after the German breakthrough at Sienno yesterday, burning the bridges over the Vistula River at ...

- In the centre of the Adriatic, equidistant from the Italian and Austro-Hungarian shores, sits the tiny island of Pelagosa, barely more tha...

- Even though the Kaiser had given permission on May 5th for Zeppelin raids on London east of the Tower, this has been insufficient for thos...

- The first major conference of the Entente powers is held today at Chantilly, the headquarters of General Joffre, as representatives of Bri...

- For the past several days corps from the German 11th and the Austro-Hungarian 2nd Armies have been attacking the Russians lines south of  ...

- The ongoing German offensive in Galicia, and the continued inability of the Russian army to substantially halt the enemy advance, have led...

- Almost since the outbreak of the war the German government has been fighting a losing battle over its image abroad among neutrals.  While ...

- After the loss of Hill 60 yesterday evening, the Germans have moved up 19th Saxon Regiment, and at 630 launch a desperate counterattack.  ...