The First World War was unlike any war that had ever been fought before in history. Armies battled not for colonial power or territory, but for loyalty to alliances formed during the 1800s. The obligations owed by the main powers to their respective alliances saw senseless death sprawled across Europe. The spark that started the fire was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of the Austro-Hungarian empire by Serbian nationalists, which would otherwise have remained a relatively minor conflict if it were not for the blind allegiances of the European countries that led all-out war...

As Great Britain prepared to celebrate its annual Bank Holiday, the nation's Foreign Secretary, Edward Grey, realized, as he received reports of mobilization of armies and declarations of war, that the assassination earlier in June of an Austrian Archduke was about to call a tune to which all of Europe would soon be grimly dancing. His friends would recall that as night drew on and the lamps were being lit in the city streets, Grey wrote: "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.'
A month into the war, Guise was a blueprint for the new...

In so many ways, "The War to End all Wars" was a military holocaust rooted in the treaties, arrogance, and insecurities of the previous generations. The initial victim of the past was Belgium, which, owing to the misfortunes of geography, was located in the path of the German invasion. The Belgian Army, which had seen its cities fall, one by one, to the Germans, looked to Antwerp and its fortifications to save the country.
Antwerp was a sufficient distance from Sarajevo, the place where World War I truly began. The war, with its roots in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the...

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" -Winston Churchill Have you ever encountered the term "Battle of Britain" in the course of studying history or at least in the Second World War? To make sense of this battle, it is important to emphasize that the event should be defined in order to establish the scope of war and its causes. The battle commenced when the German military force defeated the French army in the summer days of 1940. As soon as France was disposed, Germany then turned their sights to Great Britain. The purpose of...