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The Great War extras

After the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the following events today known as the July Crisis, the European powers go...

The war was supposed to be over by Christmas 1915 but instead of peace, 1915 brings ever more escalation. The Ottoman Empire and Italy join the war,...

2 years after the start of the war, three of the biggest battles of human history are fought simultaneously: The Russian Brusilov Offensive, the...

The war gets bigger and bigger as the USA and several other countries join the war. At the same time Russia is drowning in revolutions and pulling...

Even after 3 1/2 years of war, the waring nations still gear for bigger and bigger offensives that will finally bring and end to "the war to end all...

1915 was a year in favour of the Central Powers. But in early 1916, the Russians, British and French were sending more fresh troops into battle than...

It already started around Christmas but this week the evacuation of Gallipoli is complete. While the evacuation was a success, the overall defeat is...

The Russians try to take Czernowitz, the Capital of Austrian Bukovina but thousands upon thousands of Russians were killed in action. While in...

Even though Britain went to war over the violation of the Belgian neutrality by the Germans, the neutrality of Greece seems to be of no concern to...

The preparations for the huge German offensive at Verdun are almost complete. Thousands of artillery pieces are moved, millions shells brought to the...

The situation for the Italian soldiers was dire during the winter battles, but even though Luigi "The Generalissimo" Cadorna maintained a tight grip...

The sinking of the Lusitania is still causing diplomatic tensions between Germany and the USA. While the Germans insist they were forced by the...

The Germans start the biggest battle in history with an artillery barrage of over 1000 guns on a 20 km front. The Battle of Verdun is the first major...

The fierce Battle of Verdun continues but as the Germans under Crown prince Wilhelm push harder and harder, the German casualties begin to rise to...

The fierce battle of Verdun is still going on and the initial surprise momentum of the German Army under Erich von Falkenhayn is lost. Battles for...

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain is a 2009 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers the period of British...

Experience firsthand "the war to end all wars." World War I was the first war in history to affect most of the globe, with battles fought on land, at...

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, most people thought the conflict would be over by Christmas; they could not imagine how wrong they were. An...

Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915....

Documentary narrated by Kenneth Branagh consisting of colourised footage from World War I.