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 ...
Summary: This article traces the evolution and significance of steel line-of-battleships from the 1880s, culminating in the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought of 1905, which epitomized naval dominance ...
Key point: Super-dreadnoughts were ill-defined, but packed a serious punch. HMS Iron Duke was the second battleship named after the Duke of Wellington. The first, scrapped in 1906, had the distinction ...
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 05 No. 17 - 20 July 1918) Including: Central European socialists correspond on WW1, Finnish socialists massacred, parliamentary updates, aeroplane workers strike ends, ...