The guns of August 1918: the Allied counter-offensive in the Somme Sector
The German Spring Offensive, which began with Operation Michael in March 1918, had culminated by the Second Battle of the Marne in mid-July 1918.
The German Spring Offensive, which began with Operation Michael in March 1918, had culminated by the Second Battle of the Marne in mid-July 1918.
Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley ‘Joe’ Maude was one of the First World War’s most successful fighting Generals.
When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, aged 25, he lived through what he would later call the “most stupendous experience of my life”.
Don Bradman could cut you with his tongue as sharply as he could flash a ball to the boundary with his bat.
At the beginning of 1918, three years of fighting and destruction had failed to produce any clear result on the Western Front.
When originally formed in 1914 the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was commanded by Major-General William Bridges, who also commanded the 1st Division.
Ottoman authorities arrested and deported 230 Armenian political, religious, educational and intellectual leaders in Constantinople 500km east to Angora (now Ankara) on the eve of the ANZAC landing on Gallipoli.
David Cameron has produced a monumentally detailed and documented account of the battles fought by Australian troops between the 21st March and 25th April 1918.