Sixteen-year-old Piete Kuhr describes in her diary a chilling visit to the Flying Corps barracks in Posen

A shock artillery attack on the French capital marked the start of an offensive that nearly broke the Allies

As the conflict entered its final few months, a new horror was unleashed on humanity: a deadly pandemic that would ultimately kill more people than the war itself

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on the legislation that finally gave the vote to at least part of Britain’s female population 

Edmund Morel exposed the truth about the Congo. But then he turned to the causes of the war

Increasing disruption of food imports by U-boats necessitated a radical social experiment: rationing

Artist John Nash not only painted the ordeals of Britain’s front line troops: he experienced them first-hand

When Jerusalem surrendered to the British, General Edmund Allenby stage-managed his triumph perfectly

The revolution that brought the Bolsheviks to power changed the course of the war. US journalist John Reed witnessed its defining moments

George Abel Schreiner, a US journalist who spent much of the war in Germany, on the terrible toll of food shortages

General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s irregulars kept thousands of Allied troops tied down in the east African bush for years. Sean O'Grady reflects on his finest hour

Albin Köbis was a humble stoker whose doomed protest foreshadowed the mutinies that would eventually cripple Germany’s navy