The first battle between Germany and Britain in World War One took place not on the muddy fields of France but in the scrub land of Togo. Keen to compete with its European rivals, Germany acquired ...

Dr Sam Willis discovers how the British artist Norman Wilkinson developed dazzle camouflage to protect ships from German U-boats in WW1 WW1: What caused Verdun to be the longest battle of the war?

Since the dawn of the science of warfare, when the battle became more than two groups simply slogging it out until one is ...

A stolen propeller from a World War One U-boat is being returned to Germany after being recovered in Wales. The submarine UC-75 was responsible for sinking 56 merchant ships and two warships ...

The action was particularly important because as a consequence of the battle, the German East Asia Squadron ... light on what was a defining point in WWI, and therefore a landmark moment in ...

A postcard discovered in the diary of a German World War One officer has led his descendant to bring a message sent to the trenches more than a century ago back to the family of a fallen British ...

A Carlisle family has said that they are 'surprised' after finding a German First World War medal in their garage.

A museum is appealing for information about a World War One German pistol handed in during a firearms amnesty. The 1911 Luger pistol, given to Wiltshire Police, is believed to have been taken as a ...