The Royal Brothers, Future Kings, Who Both Fought In WWI – They Had Vastly Different Experiences
Brothers Edward, Prince of Wales and Prince Albert, both of whom became king of England, each served in the military during World War I.…
Battlefield 1 Lets You Fly Over the Chaos of WWI Trench Warfare – Playing as a Carrier Pigeon (Video)
Check out the Pigeon Scene and 20 full minutes of campaign action from Battlefield 1 below. More snippets of Battlefield 1’s campaign are coming out…
Tiny Australian Town Remembers The 13 Men Who Never Returned From The First World War
The small town of Kojonup saw its population swell from 25 to 300 recently, drawing local residents and visitors from other states who attended to…
The Warship That Fired The First Shots Of WWI
Stuck into a muddy river bank, somewhere in Serbia, lies an old, derelict gravel barge. Rusted, useless, and over 100 years old it has limited…
Breathtaking Drone Footage Flying Over The First World War Battlefields Of Verdun
In this Drone footage by Gauthier Lefebvre we will take a look at battle for Verdun as we’ve never seen it before. We fly over trenches, inside…
WWI ‘Canary Babies’ Were Born With A Yellow Tint To Their Skin Because Their Mothers Worked In Munitions Factories
The last surviving ‘Canary Babies’ have told their story of how their skin was tinged yellow after their mothers worked in explosives factories in the…
Dutch Company Accused of Profiting by Looting Warship Wreck From the Battle of Jutland
The Dutch salvage firm Friendship Offshore is under fire from Maritime heritage organizations in the UK and in Denmark which have accused the company of…
Top 5 Battles Where Fighting Spirit Overcame The Odds
Battles can be lost for a hundred different reasons. Poor numbers, unwise strategy, inferior weapons, the list goes on. But just occasionally, a fighting force…
Sergeant York – Captured 132 German Soldiers In WWI – Movie Scene
Sergeant Alvin York was seemingly born to a hardscrabble existence and anonymity in death, but World War One changed that forever. The story of York is…
Civilian Fishermen, Father and Son, Captured By A German Submarine And Became Prisoners of War
Imagine the surprise when the mother of 17-year-old James Ritchie received a postcard from him months after he and fellow fishermen disappeared saying they were…
The Battle of Jutland – A Pyrrhic Victory For Germany In World War One
Even though Imperial German Navy was a well-prepared force during WWI, with a considerable amount of powerful vessels, it was still no match for the traditional…
This WW1 VC Charged The Enemy Trenches Captured 6 Machine Guns and 100 Infantry
Horace Augustus Curtis wasn’t supposed to be a war hero. He was supposed to be a nobody who lived and died in relative poverty in…