"Sopherl, Sopherl, don't die. Stay alive for the children! " The murder that ignited World War One.

The German Army Marches Through Brussels, 1914

"This was a machine, endless, tireless, with the delicate organization of a watch and the brute power of a steam roller."

The Beginning of Air Warfare, 1914

"Have you got a revolver, old boy? My ammunition's all gone." The beginning of air-to-air combat.

Christmas in the Trenches, 1914

"We and the Germans met in the middle of no-man's-land." A spontaneous truce takes over the front lines during the first Christmas of World War I on the Western Front.

Battle At Gallipoli, 1915

". . . Had a good supper and nearly finished our water. The last meal poor Jack ever had." The futile attempt to open a new front and relieve the stalemate in France.

The Birth of the Fighter Plane, 1915

"I thought of what a deadly accurate stream of lead I could send into the plane." The Dutch inventor of the modern fighter plane takes it on its first trial run in combat.

The Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915

"Many people must have lost their heads..." View the destruction of the Lusitania through the periscope of the submarine that sank her.

The Battle of Jutland, 1916

"...then came the big explosion." On board the battle cruiser Queen Mary as she is sunk during World War I's largest naval battle.

A Death at the Battle of the Somme, 1916

He was young, an American, and a poet; and he joined the French Foreign Legion to defend the country he loved.



In the American Ambulance Field Service, 1916

"Just overhead as the car passes comes a blasting, shattering crash which is like sudden death." Ride with the volunteer crew of an American ambulance as it heads for the French front lines before America's entrance into WWI.

The Battlefield Debut of the Tank, 1916

"...lumbering slowly towards us came three huge mechanical monsters such as we had never seen before."