Description: In the waters off the coast of central Chile an encounter unfolded on 1 November 1914—the Battle of Coronel. The ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most ...

Christmas doesn’t stop a war, but it does put a bright circle around the date, making the distance from home and loved ones louder. That’s why the 1914 Christmas Truce keeps coming back on screen. For ...

It’s 1914. The German plan going into what would become World War I is to rush troops to the west and overwhelm France quickly, before the much larger and more formidable Russia has a chance to ...

Why does the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand -- the event that lit the fuse of World War One 100 years ago Saturday -- still resonate so powerfully? Virtually nobody believes World War Three ...

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