The Great War

The Champagne offensive is still going on the Western Front without any side gaining a decisive advantage. In the Caucasus, Enver Pasha is …

The Austro-Hungarian army resembles a better militia after six months into the war. The defeats against Serbia and Russia and still under s…

French general Joseph Joffre is stuck in a dilemma: the Champagne offensive has been going on for weeks now - without any of the expected r…

For a decisive advantage on the Western Front, the military commanders of both sides are trying to use technological advances. And so this …

Konrad von Hötzendorf has to prevent the Russian army from entering the Hungarian plains. He starts a huge offensive in the Carpathian Moun…

After more than 6 months of stalemate, the German Empire is playing two new cards to gain a decisive advantage. On the Eastern Front, the G…

This week, well over 1 million soldiers are on the advance everywhere in Europe. General Hindenburgs tries to beat the Russians once and fo…

After more than six months of war, the first big mutiny breaks out in Singapore. The endless battles in which big powers sacrifice thousand…

To break up the stalemate and get a decisive advantage, France and Great Britain open up yet another theatre of war in the Dardanelles. The…

Modern war already took place in the sky and under water but the waring nations also wanted to gain an advantage in the trenches. So this w…

The British Expeditionary Forces are starting their first major offensive since the beginning of trench warfare. Near Neuve-Chapelle they a…

Even though the Entente offensive near Constantinople didn't really take off yet, the allied powers were already dreaming about splitting u…

The generals at the Western Front are slowly starting to adapt to the modern war. The battle of Neuve-Chappelle will be a blueprint for fut…

The Ottoman Navy is finally able to fend off the Russian and Royal Navies in the Dardanelles, Bulgaria is considering joining the Central P…

The leaders of the Ottoman Empire are looking for a scapegoat after their collosal defeat in the Caucasian Mountains a few month earlier. T…

This week, generals on three different fronts show that they are not able to realise their mistakes. Basra falls to the British, the quick …

fter experiments on the Eastern Front, the German Army is using poison gas for the first time on the Western Front. At the beginning of the…

Completely underestimating the Ottoman army at the Dardanelles, the British commanders decide to let the ANZACs take the Gallipoli peninsul…

Ignoring the warnings and cruising carelessly slow the RMS Lusitania is hit by a torpedo of the German U-Boat U20. Almost 2000 people die d…

The 2nd Battle of Ypres is still going but no side can gain a decisive advantage. The main reason on the British side is a lack of artiller…

The big success of the Gallipoli Campaign never came, thousands of soldiers died and so Winston Churchill is forced to resign. At the same …

After the defeats of Austria-Hungary against Russia, Italy is seeing her chance to grab disputed territories from them. Even though they ar…

When Przemysl falls for the 2nd time and when the British and ANZAC troops fail at Gallipoli again, one thing becomes clear: Artillery is t…

Reginald Warneford is important to Britain's war effort. Not just because he shot down a German zeppelin, but because he is made a hero in …

The war seems like a romantic novel this week: In the East the Russians are saved by Cossack Cavalry while August von Mackensen's artillery…

Just a few weeks ago Austria-Hungary's military laid in shambles. But with German support from August von Mackensen and other German genera…

Two months after landing in Gallipoli the fight has become a trench warfare. In Mesopotamia British troops were losing the optimism, they h…

The Great Retreat of the Russians during the last weeks has shown one thing: Artillery is the key to success. More specifically, a new kind…

The German-Austrian offensive on the Eastern Front had undone all of Russia's territorial gains in the last weeks. Lemberg had fallen and t…

This week Russia premieres her tactics of „Scorched Earth“. A new strategy of burning their own land is to avoid enemies profiting from the…

After Russia's Great Retreat and the defeat on the Eastern Front, the Russian Army is demoralized and even revolution is in the air. German…

After the Russian defeats on the Eastern Front, Warsaw falls. The first time in over 100 years a new foreign power occupies the city. The G…

Another 20.000 soldiers fresh from the barracks are supposed to turn the tide at Gallipoli. But Mustafa Kemal is an Ottoman commander to be…

he Entente was in desperate need of American supplies and so the German submarine campaign in the Atlantic was a real problem. The British …

Peter Hart described the state of the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 as "lunatic persistence in the face of the obvious" - and the Battle of Hi…

The Western Front has been relatively quiet the whole summer while the Russians were on their Big Retreat. The French and British generals …

While the Socialist movement gathers in Switzerland and calls for peace on the Western Front, on the Eastern Front and the Balkans the sign…

This week Indy dissects a contemporary source from autumn 1915 - the Hobart Mercury Newspaper from Australia. While the French and British…

When the Germans take Vilnius, they set their plans of "germanizing" the whole area into motion. Erich Ludendorff believes that Courland an…

After weeks of preparation the French and British Armies unleash a new offensive on the Western Front. Not only is it supposed to relieve p…

By the numbers the Battle of Loos was a defeat for the British Army but they learned valuable lessons for the future on the Western Front. …

Edith Cavell was a British nurse serving in a nursing school in occupied Belgium. She was executed by the Germans for treason and espionage…

After the Great Retreat during the summer, the Russians are finally able to fight back the Germans at Dvinsk. With a new type of trench war…

For the third time the Italians had tried to conquer the Austrian positions at the Isonzo front and for the third time they had failed. And…

erbia's Army cannot hold out much longer against the invasion of the Central Powers. Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria are relentlessly…

12 war zones were not enough for this global war and this week an often forgotten theatre of war opens in Libya. Local Arab tribesmen fight…

Far away from the Western Front, the British Indian Army gets intro trouble in Mesopotamia against the Ottoman Empire. In the Alps, the Fou…

Serbia's last stand is over and the remaining forces and civilians have to leave their home country across the inhabitable trails of the Al…

Serbia is breaking under the pressure of the Central Power invasion and the last troops and civilians flee through the Alps. The final deci…

The morale of the Italian Army at the Isonzo Front is on an all time low. Catastrophic defeats against the Austrians, bad and broken equipm…

While the Western and Eastern Front freeze over and the armies there have to fight the harsh conditions as much as the fight the enemy, the…

1915 was a year for the Central Powers except on the Western Front where the stalemate continues. But plans are being made on both sides to…