A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

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

- N-Abt, the intelligence department of OHL , produces a report today on the Entente armies on the Western Front.  They estimate that the cu...

- As the Germans and Austro-Hungarians grind southwards towards Kragujevac, the mood is grim at Serbian army headquarters.  General Mišic of...

- The German III Corps has had a particularly difficult few days as a result of the Kossava, as in addition to the supply difficulties faced...

- In reaction to the Bulgarian entry into the war, the Russian Black Seas Fleet bombards the Bulgarian ports of Varna and Evxinograd, encoun...

- 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,...

- For weeks the French army have been preparing for their fall offensive in Champagne, digging both new trenches behind the front to conceal...

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

- Over the past six days the fighting at the village of Neuville has been constant, and the French infantry have managed to literally inch t...