The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

"The First World War was a watershed in human history. Beginning in the European summer of 1914, the conflict reverberated around the world, destroying four empires and costing nearly ten million ...

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World War I was the laboratory that transformed airplanes from vehicles of limited capability into reliable weapons of war. The “World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation” exhibition highlights both ...

The First World War not only saw reporting from the battlefields of Europe in the pages of ENR, but extensive coverage of the rapid realignment of the U.S. construction sector to support the war ...

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown. The intricate assassination plan ended up setting off a ...