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Great Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia ... Women in WW1 Before World War One began, men were thought of as the 'breadwinners', bringing in the money for the family with their weekly ...
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World ... war. And then there are those that blame the situation on the irreconcilable interests of a rising Germany and a declining Great ...
World War One determined the timing of democratic ... The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War 1914-1918 by Trevor Wilson (Oxford, 1986) Britain and the Great War 1914-1918 by John ...
On the one hand, the First World War was a necessary struggle and Britain ... daughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (Henry Guttmann/Getty Images) Wilhelm II, emperor of Germany, was a ...
BBC Documentaries marking the centenary of World War One. BBC One Opening the World War One commemoration season on the BBC and produced in partnership with the Open University, landmark new ...
The action of the government in regard to slaves taken during the war is confessedly one of tho most difficult ... the ground taken respectively by Great Britain and our own Government on that ...
A new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., invites Americans to recognize another world war—one that has been traditionally envisioned as a ...
Doubting Viscount Swinton’s competence and fearing that he might use his Committee against liberal elements in Britain ... the Prime Minister retorted: “One has to be very careful how one ...
The story of the underdog is one of life ... Chase Field, the Great Britain baseball team was already on the cusp of adding themselves to this list of longshots – with a World Baseball Classic ...
The BBC’s World War One Centenary season is unlike any other ... among the things I’m personally looking forward to is Britain’s Great War, a landmark documentary series for BBC One early ...