A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

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

- 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,...

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

- On the southern face of the St.-Mihiel salient, the French XII Corps, on the left of 73rd Division, joins the attack of the latter on the ...

- Along certain stretches of the Western Front remarkable scenes play out today.  In what will become famous as the 'Christmas Truce...

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

- West of the Yser the Germans inch closer to the Belgian line along the railway embankment, approaching to within several hundred yards.  M...

- Along the Yser both sides spend the day bombarding each other, the Germans in particular concluding that Dixmude needs another period of i...

- The battle intensifies between Ypres and the Channel.  In the pre-dawn hours, the German 26th Reserve Infantry Regiment of III Reserve Cor...

- Fort Loncin, the last surviving Belgian fort ne ar Liège, come s under bombardment from a Krupp 420 mortar firing from within the town its...

- At 3am the battlecruisers of the British Mediterranean Fleet enter the Aegean Sea.  Detecting increased wireless signals, Admiral Souchon ...

- Today the Royal Navy sinks its first German U-boat of the war.  As anti-submarine weapons do not exist as of yet, the light cruiser Birmin...

- The economic impact of the outbreak of war has reached the neutral United States, as Europeans withdraw funds from American banks.  As a r...

- In the pre-dawn hours, as Goeben  and Breslau  continue to sail eastwards, a British squadron of four armoured cruisers under Rear Admiral...

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