Great War stories:
War veteran Allingham dies at 113
Jul 18th, 2009 - Ananova
Henry Allingham, the oldest surviving British serviceman from the First World War, has died at the age of 113, his care home said. Mr Allingham served with the Royal Naval Air Service during the Great War...
Michael Martin and wife Mary faced merciless criticism in the press
May 19th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Michael Martin and wife Mary faced merciless criticism in the press I feel like the father in that propaganda posters from the First World War. You know the one. A shame faced man sits staring into the distance as his children ask...
Great War videos from YouTube:
9:58The First World War - War Without End 1/6
Summer 1918. The last German offensive failed to break the Allies. Unrest bordering on revolution at home spread demoralization to the German army. The central Powers's alliance was crumbling with Turkey exhausted, Bulgaria beaten, and Austro-Hungary trying to work its own armistice with the Allies ...
9:55The First World War - Global War 1/6
The Great War rapidly went global as the European powers drew on their colonial empires to fight each others. Royal Navy squadrons chased German warships commanded by brilliant maverick seamen accross the globe. The Japanese seized Tsingtao from the Germans ...
5:33The Great Office War
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9:20The First World War - Germany's Last Gamble 1/6
In early 1918 Germany was nearing the end of its tether, with a stalemate on the battlefield and growing unrest at home. Nevertheless, the Bolshevik revolution in Russia freed half a million German soldiers to fight on the Western Front ...
Great War from WikiPedia:
Treaty of Versailles signed 28 June 1919
World War I (abbreviated as WW-I, WWI, or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict that embroiled most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. More than 70 million military personnel were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. The main combatants descended into a state of total war, pumping their entire scientific and industrial capabilities into the war effort. More than 15 million people were killed, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in history.
The immediate or proximate cause of war was the assassination on 28 June 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist. Austria–Hungary's resulting demands against the Kingdom of Serbia activated a sequence of alliances. Within weeks the major European powers were at war; their global empires meant that the conflict soon spread worldwide.
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