Louis D. Rubin, a professor emeritus of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says that among certain British writers there is “a kind of obsession” about refighting the Battle ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The German offensive of spring and summer 1918 very nearly succeeded, despite the material and military support of the United States. Had the United States been less ...

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 237th installment in the series. While for many ordinary people the outbreak of war in 1914 came as a ...

But between these momentous events there occurred the greatest naval battle of the war, and on some measures the greatest in history. On the afternoon of May 31, 1916, the full battle fleets of ...

Oldtimers on the north tip of Denmark remember a special kind of sea thunder, which they heard during the late afternoon and night of May 31, 1916. It was the firing of heaviest naval ordnance and it ...

A still of the footage obtained by Shipwreck Secrets that shows the ferocity of the sea battle back in 1916. Pic credit: Science Channel. Shipwreck Secrets comes to the Science Channel on Sunday ...

THOSE who seek the truth about any important military event of the World War find themselves confronted by a mass of contradictory evidence. Either side of the case may be presented in detail so ...

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Historical analogies are powerful tools. While no analogy is perfect, they can be extremely effective in policy debates, making concepts that are hard to imagine seem real. In discussions about ...