Italy sat out the opening of WWI, then jumped in after the secret Treaty of London—expecting a short, glorious war. Instead it bled through 12 Isonzo offensives, froze in Alpine trenches, suffered the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jackson wrote and directed They Shall Not Grow Old, which excavates and transforms early, jerky, black-and-white film footage into ...

A World War I documentary in 3D with colorized archival footage that looks as new as the day it was shot. What sounds like an impossible feat becomes a riveting reality in the hands of director Peter ...

Scientists have spotted a once-in-a-century climate anomaly during World War I that likely increased mortality during the war and the influenza pandemic in the years that followed. Scientists have ...

Riflemen Andrew and Grigg (center)—British troops from London—during the Christmas Truce with Saxons of the 104th and 106th Regiments of the Imperial German Army. Feedloader (Clickability) Even at the ...

Researchers analyzing gases in glacial cores have corroborated historical record of the 1918 pandemic. Ice cores trap environmental factors, viruses, bacteria, and more that illustrates conditions at ...

Of the British and German soldiers who faced each other across the muddy fields of Flanders on Christmas Eve in 1914, even those who no longer believed the optimistic predictions of a short war would ...

It was known as “The Great War”—a land, air and sea conflict so terrible, it left over 8 million military personnel and 6.6 million civilians dead. Nearly 60 percent of those who fought died. Even ...