First World War

Pictures worth a thousand words - William Coupe traces, via cartoons, the changes in attitudes and public opinion in the Kaiser's Germany towards the First World War.

Lions led by donkeys? Britain's most traumatic land offensive of the First World War drew to its conclusion in November 1916. Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior reassess the campaign, the wisdom of its strategy and tactics, and the reputation of its C-in-C, Douglas Haig.

Our boys over there? Mark Ellis looks at how America's black newspapers and population reacted to US involvement in the First World War and at the steps the government took to try and ensure a favourable press.

Jeffrey Grey on how computers are profiling Australia's First World War combatants

Were the Germans justified in executing a British merchant captain for ramming a U-boat in March 1915? Phyllis Hall considers a curious episode from the First World War.

A small, far-away country, but one whose tangled relations with its neighbours, Ian Armour suggests, lead inexorably to the debacle of 1914.

One of history's little ironies - a period piece of First World War propaganda from a curious source which rebounded on its author.

Alan Sked looks at the sensational leaking of Austrian military secrets to Russia on the eve of the First World War.

David French presents an overview of the historiography on the subject.

Hew Strachan reviews historians' approaches to the Great War.