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British air ace Captain Albert BallFeature Articles
 Updated - Saturday, 8 July, 2006

Contained within this section are featured articles encompassing a wide variety of aspects of the war, and which do not fall within one of the categories listed on the sidebar visible to your left.

For example there are summaries of the famed Christmas Truce of 1914, plus the story of the Zimmermann Telegram which was a key factor in driving the United States towards war.

Then there's the story of Henry Tandey, the British private soldier who was presented with the opportunity of shooting Adolf Hitler during the early stages of the war, but instead showed mercy.

Mountain Fury (click here)
Simon Rees on the Austro-Hungarian campaign at Trentino
Birds in the Birdcage (click here)
Loretta Proctor on writing about the Allies in Salonika
Women and World War One (click here)
Sara Martin's analysis of the wartime role of women
Beating For Light (click here)
Geoff Akers on writing a novel about Isaac Rosenberg
The Iron Harvest (click here)
Diane Wilson's account of her book about Talbot House
The Bloodhounds of Berlin (click here)
Recounting of the Spartacist uprising in Berlin in 1918/19
The Passchendaele Archives (click here)
Appeal by the Memorial Museum, Zonnebeke
Munich 1919 (click here)
A detailed account of its collapse into revolution
A Good Idea of Hell (click here)
Review of new edition of Robert Pellisier's wartime letters
The Forgotten Army (click here)
Role of the light draught horse and mule during wartime
The Easter Rising, Dublin 1916 (click here)
Detailed summary of the movement for Irish independence
In Search of the Horbury Soldiers (click here)
Account of a pilgrimage to France and Flanders
The Memorable Order of Tin Hats (click here)
Story of an irreverent post-war veterans' organisation
The Zimmermann Telegram (click here)
Contemporary commentary published in 1921
A Slow Fuse: Hitler's Wartime Service (click here)
Adolf Hitler's wartime service explored
The Life of Evelina Haverfield (click here)
The remarkable life of the British suffragette
Lions of the Great War (click here)
Account of the service of Sikhs during WW1
Finding Private Adams (click here)
Wartime career of a machine gunner
Theodore Lukis and the Lukis Trophy (click here)
Life and times of Dr Lukis and his legacy
The Most Popular War in History (click here)
Background to recruitment in England
Spain During the First World War (click here)
Summary of Spain's involvement
Vimy Ridge Today (click here)
Simon Rees' summary of a visit to Vimy Ridge
Thailand During the First World War (click here)
Background to Siam's involvement
Alfred Shout V.C. (click here)
Story of Australia's most decorated hero at Gallipoli
Repression of War Experience (click here)
Psychiatrist W.H. Rivers' renowned 1917 paper
William Jackson, Australia's Youngest V.C. (click here)
Story of the controversy surrounding his war medals
Private Harry Dalziel V.C. (click here)
How Private Harry Dalziel earned his V.C. in 1918
Scuttling at Scapa Flow (click here)
Sinking of the German High Seas Fleet
Disputed Sexuality of T. E. Lawrence (click here)
How his war experiences have led researchers astray
How a Right Can Make a Wrong (click here)
How Private Henry Tandey saved Hitler's life
Kitchener's Lost Staff (click here)
Campaign to commemorate Kitchener's staff
The English Camp (click here)
Internment of British soldiers at Groningen
Belgian Air Service (click here)
Role of the Belgian Air Service during wartime
Despatches of Douglas Haig (click here)
Text of British C-in-C's wartime despatches in full
Meuse-Argonne Offensive of 1918 (click here)
Discussion of U.S. involvement at Meuse-Argonne
William Stones - Executed at Dawn (click here)
Story of William Stones' execution
Rainbow Warriors (click here)
Tracking down details of men of Iowa's 168 Brigade
Air Aces of World War One (click here)
Famed fighter pilots of the air war
Military Casualties of World War One (click here)
Number of dead, wounded and missing by country
Principal Actions of World War One (click here)
List of primary events, actions and offensives 1914-18
Who Declared War and When (click here)
Rundown of war declarations by nation
How the Great War was Lost - and Found (click here)
Release of the renowned 1960s BBC series on VHS/DVD
Forgotten Boys of the Aisne (click here)
British contribution on the Chemin des Dames
Life in the Trenches (click here)
Daily routine of trench life
Christmas Truce (click here)
Unofficial Christmas Truce in 1914
July Crisis (click here)
Examines the events of July 1914
Causes of World War One (click here)
Looks at the roots of the Great War
The Armistice (click here)
Details the background to Armistice Day
The Unknown Warrior (click here)
Story of Britain's Unknown Warrior
The Planning of the War (click here)
Discusses the major powers' war plans
Minor Powers During World War One (click here)
Role of the oft-forgotten nations
Zimmermann Telegram (click here)
How Germany and Mexico viewed war with America
RMS Lusitania: The Fateful Voyage (click here)
How and why the Lusitania was sunk
Brave Little Belgium (click here)
Overview of the Belgian struggle
Woodrow Wilson's Administration (click here)
Overview of the U.S. President's two terms
Willy-Nicky Telegrams (click here)
The Kaiser to the Tsar and the Tsar to the Kaiser
Inauguration of the Menin Gate 1927 (click here)
Story of the opening of the Menin Gate in Ypres
A Profile of Sir Julian Byng (click here)
Biographical sketch of General Byng
Life of General John J. Pershing (click here)
Overview of the life of the U.S. AEF Commander-in-Chief
Trench Slang of the Western Front (click here)
Explanation of terms such as 'Blighty Ones'
Capture of Hill 60 in 1916 (click here)
Story of a raid on infamous hill near Ypres
Satirical Magazines of the First World War (click here)
British magazine humour during wartime
German Responsibility for War (click here)
Role of Germany in starting the war
Marshal Foch and the Cult of the Offensive (click here)
An examination of French General Ferdinand Foch
Germany During World War One (click here)
Like in Wilhelm II's Germany from 1914-18
If Germany Had Won World War One... (click here)
A 'what if' scenario...
New Zealand and Memory of the Great War (click here)
An examination of New Zealand's role
History of the 13th Battalion Black Watch (click here)
Canadian Black Watch's role in the war
Australian Flying Corps (click here)
Story of the AFC during World War One
Canadian Expeditionary Force (click here)
Central Ontario Regiment
Balkan Causes of World War One (click here)
Examination of causes of the war
U.S. Propaganda in the First World War (click here)
Story of U.S. wartime propaganda
Germany's Use of Chemical Weapons (click here)
How poison gas was introduced to the Western Front
New Zealand's Birth as a Nation (click here)
How the war helped New Zealand come of age
 

By 1918 the percentage of women to men working in Britain had risen to 37% from 24% at the start of the war.

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