The first shots of World War One are fired in Africa. By 1914 the German Empire has four colonies in East, West and South Africa. British and French forces invade Togoland the site of a key German ...

The social and economic catastrophe left in the ashes of World War I ignited an intellectual and political struggle that would last most of the twentieth century - a battle between the powers of ...

Massive amounts of life had already been extinguished in the war’s opening months, but there was one event that halted the brutality and bloodshed: the famous World War I Christmas Truce of 1914.