The concrete blocks that once protected Britain
More than 100 years ago acoustic mirrors along the coast of England were built with the intention of using them to detect the sound of approaching German zeppelins. The concave concrete structures were designed to pick up sound waves from enemy aircraft, making it possible to predict their flight trajectory, giving enough time for ground forces to be alerted to defend the towns and cities of Brita
How Ethiopian prince scuppered Germany's WW1 plans
At 16 years old, Iyasu took the opportunity of the death of the regent to claim personal rule A hundred years ago, the Ethiopian prince Lij Iyasu was deposed after the Orthodox church feared he had converted to Islam. But it also scuppered Germany's plans to draw Ethiopia into World War One, writes Martin Plaut. In January 1915 a dhow slipped quietly out of the Arabian port of Al-Wajh. On board we
Tank at 100: Baptism of fire, fear and blood
The tank was first used in battle on 15 September 1916 at the Somme. The tank, which would go on to dominate 20th Century warfare, first stormed on to the shattered battlefields of the Somme 100 years ago. Rushed into battle by desperate generals with barely any testing, its debut was a messy experiment with questionable results. A select group of young men were the first to feel its terrible infl
The Somme: The battle that France forgot
The Thiepval memorial to the thousands who died at the Battle of the Somme When President Hollande attends the centenary on Friday, he will be the first French head of state at a Somme commemoration in more than 80 years. President De Gaulle did not attend the 50th anniversary in 1966. Nor have his successors been at any subsequent event. In fact the last time a French head of state went to a Somm
Opinion | How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front (Published 2016)
IN the summer of 1916, a young Oxford academic embarked for France as a second lieutenant in the British Expeditionary Force. The Great War, as World War I was known, was only half-done, but already its industrial carnage had no parallel in European history. “Junior officers were being killed off, a dozen a minute,†recalled J. R. R. Tolkien. “Parting from my wife,†he wrote, doubting that he woul
Verdun: France's sacred symbol of healing
The British have the Somme. For the French it is the 10-month battle of Verdun. For both countries, these two epic confrontations came to symbolise the suffering and endurance of the common fighting man. What is often forgotten, though, is how closely the two battles are connected in the history of World War One. Because each country sacralised one of the battles - making it the focus of national
Viewpoint: Christmas is not for trivialising war
The UK may be busy commemorating the Christmas Truce of 1914, when soldiers on the WW1 front line briefly made friends with the enemy, but few Germans have heard of it - and most would be startled to see it dramatised in a TV ad, writes Sebastian Borger of Berliner Zeitung. Whatever else their experience of living in Britain, most Germans here share one thing: an astonishment at the extent to whic
A 100-Year Legacy of World War I (Published 2014)
June 29, 1914 The assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne by a Serbian nationalist set off a series of events that led to the start of World WarÂ â… . August 25, 1914 Early on in the war, it appeared clear that it would be a grueling war of attrition, with all sides sacrificing many casualties for small - if any - gains. August 30, 1914 Newspapers at the time carried reported news, o
World War I in Photos: Technology
World War I in Photos: Technology Industrialization brought massive changes to warfare during the Great War. Newly-invented killing machines begat novel defense mechanisms, which, in turn spurred the development of even deadlier technologies. Nearly every aspect of what we would consider modern warfare debuted on World War I battlefields. Alan Taylor May 11, 2014 When Europe's armies first marched
10 inventions that owe their success to World War One
1. Sanitary towels... A material called Cellucotton had already been invented before war broke out, by what was then a small US firm - Kimberly-Clark. The company's head of research, Ernst Mahler, and its vice-president, James, C Kimberly, had toured pulp and paper plants in Germany, Austria and Scandinavia in 1914 and spotted a material five times more absorbent than cotton and - when mass-produc
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