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The Great War extras

After the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the following events today known as the July Crisis, the European powers go...

The war was supposed to be over by Christmas 1915 but instead of peace, 1915 brings ever more escalation. The Ottoman Empire and Italy join the war,...

2 years after the start of the war, three of the biggest battles of human history are fought simultaneously: The Russian Brusilov Offensive, the...

The war gets bigger and bigger as the USA and several other countries join the war. At the same time Russia is drowning in revolutions and pulling...

Even after 3 1/2 years of war, the waring nations still gear for bigger and bigger offensives that will finally bring and end to "the war to end all...

In May 1915, the Central Powers launched one of the greatest offensive operations of the First World War. The armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary...

In the last years of the 19th century, tension was building in the Caribbean. American newspapers were filled with grisly reports of Spanish...

In early 1917, the United States was still neutral in the First World War. Meanwhile, German leaders were getting desperate – if they...

By April 1915, the Western Front was mired in trench warfare. Germany’s new Chief of Staff, General Erich von Falkenhayn, didn’t think...

In the late 19th and early 20th century the great European powers were entangled in a series of escalating crises and wars. Each successive crisis...

Both the Entente and the Central Powers didn't achieve a breakthrough in 1916. 1917 would bring dramatic changes on all fronts with new weapons,...

When ancient war tactics became overwhelmed by powerful new weapons like tanks, air attacks, weapons of mass destruction and submarines, a pivotal...

When the 20th century opened, Britain dominated world affairs, and America stood on the sidelines. Now their positions are reversed. This is the...

Actor and British national treasure Sir David Jason travels around the UK and beyond to reveal the secret places and people who act as guardians and...

Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women...