For the British, however, the single battle that defines the bloody attritional nature of the First World War is the Somme. Friday 1 July will mark 100 years since the battle began in north west ...

The first of July has come round again and the great disaster becomes a trifle dimmer than before. It is the most dismal of ...

British infantry charging German positions, East Africa, World War I, 1914-1918. | Print Collector/GettyImages A lot of popular movies, books, and documentaries about World War I paint a pretty ...

The U-boat is another enduring image of the First World War, which marked the advent of undersea as well as aerial and mechanized warfare. One deadly German design was the Type 93 U-boat .