Perched on sofas and peering in from every angle, these Allied officers were obviously desperate to catch a glimpse of the momentous…
Anthony Richards uses first-hand testimony to recreate the dying moments of the stricken Lusitania on 7 May 1915.…
While admitting that Haig was no genius, revisionist historians have argued that by 1918, he was able to co-ordinate successfully all elements…
Taylor Downing reports on Peter Jackson’s new WWI centenary film. New Zealander Peter Jackson is known to cinema-goers for the lavish spectacles…
Taylor Downing reveals an official cover-up of mental illness in the later years of the war. It was not just the…
Film-maker Ross Barnwell is crowdfunding for a new documentary drama based on Geoffrey Malins, the cameraman who famously shot footage of the…
Could the Germans have won the First World War in 1918? Almost certainly. A quarter of a century later, the tide of war…
Gervase Phillips reports on the vital role of the ‘pigeon post’ amid Passchendaele’s waterlogged crater-fields. For Major Alec Waley, the commanding officer…
As the years draw on, the events of the First World War slowly fade from living memory. Scattered across the globe, the…
Why did the British fight the Third Battle of Ypres? MHM editor Neil Faulkner analyses the background to Haig’s offensive in Flanders…