Articles Tagged wwi - The History Herald

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, the team at Britain at War Magazine

1914: Voices From The Battlefields – Matthew Richardson

This is a fine collection of personal accounts from the opening year of the First World War, a good number

It is perhaps some measure of our humanity that the brief, partial, and entirely unauthorised, Christmas Truce of 1914, has

At just nineteen-years of age, Captain Neil Weir found himself a captain and company commander in the 10th Battalion, Argyll

The authors of this thought-provoking book make the extraordinary claim that a small group of rich and powerful men sought,

It is wonderful that documents from the First World War are still being uncovered. Often though, the letters and journals

As Ian Ronayne writes in his introduction, the motives behind Channel Islander Clarence Ahier’s meticulously written journal are unclear. Did