The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

The First World War may have begun long before the first shots were fired. This documentary examines the decisions of European leaders in 1914 to understand whether the conflict was unavoidable or the ...

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World War I was the laboratory that transformed airplanes from vehicles of limited capability into reliable weapons of war. The “World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation” exhibition highlights both ...

Known as the Great War before World War II, World War I still remains one of the biggest and deadliest conflicts in world history, and as a result, has inspired numerous stories in its wake, some of ...