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One of the bloodiest clashes of World War I, the Battle of the Somme resulted from an Allied push to breach the German front along the Somme River in Northern France.

The Film and Video Archive of the Imperial War Museum in London offers online access to over 23,000 movie records from WWI and WWII.

Field Marshall Douglas Haig is often seen to be the reason for the BEF's failings during WW1. But is he actually to blame, or are there other factors?

Hot-air balloons are used today for recreation, but in another age, these aerial wonders were deployed in war.

The story of Albert Ball; surely the RFC's boldest ace, who blazed a fiery trail over the Western Front, only to crash fatally in May 1917.

Over 200,000 carrier or homing pigeons were used by the Allied forces during World War I and II in order to conduct surveillance and relay messages to the front.

Werner Voss is virtually unknown, yet was 4th of the German aces.

The Troopship Lancastria, carrying as many as 9,000 British Army soldiers of the defeated BEF was sunk while trying to escape France in 1940.

They were not famous at the time, but history would remember these writers, actors, politicans and popes more for what they would accomplish later than for the war.

The story of Oswald Boelcke whose technical expertise and air combat tactics influenced fighter pilots in two World Wars.

In April 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in northern France, the first significant Allied victory on WW I's Western Front in more than two years.

Titan Books' newest reprint of Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun's classic comic against war presents well-researched stories about trench life and officer-soldier clashes.