Louis D. Rubin, a professor emeritus of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says that among certain British writers there is “a kind of obsession” about refighting the Battle ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The German offensive of spring and summer 1918 very nearly succeeded, despite the material and military support of the United States. Had the United States been less ...

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 237th installment in the series. While for many ordinary people the outbreak of war in 1914 came as a ...

Oldtimers on the north tip of Denmark remember a special kind of sea thunder, which they heard during the late afternoon and night of May 31, 1916. It was the firing of heaviest naval ordnance and it ...

THOSE who seek the truth about any important military event of the World War find themselves confronted by a mass of contradictory evidence. Either side of the case may be presented in detail so ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Imperial Germany built the ships of the High Seas Fleet for one purpose: to destroy the battlefleet of the Royal Navy. For this purpose, they were good ships, but ...

A still of the footage obtained by Shipwreck Secrets that shows the ferocity of the sea battle back in 1916. Pic credit: Science Channel. Shipwreck Secrets comes to the Science Channel on Sunday ...

In 1916, after the Battle of Jutland, Flight Commander F. J. Rutland dove from the deck of the seaplane carrier Engandine to rescue a wounded rating whom a ship’s heave had plunked into the sea. A ...

Historical analogies are powerful tools. While no analogy is perfect, they can be extremely effective in policy debates, making concepts that are hard to imagine seem real. In discussions about ...

A group of disabled veterans dominated an international hockey tournament in Denmark last week, though the win wasn’t the greatest part of their journey. Rather, it was the opportunity to reconnect ...