World War I had some of the deadliest battles in history. Ypres, Verdun, the Somme, Gallipoli and Tannenberg are names that live on in history books. The cost in human lives was devastating. More than ...

World War One began ... British proposals for a meeting of the great powers ... with over 250,000 casualties on both sides since the war began, the German army and the Allies try to outflank ...

Spread out across 160 pages are hundreds of images from both the Allied and Central powers, detailing the kinds of firearms used as aircraft eventually evolved into finely tuned military machines ...

While the Allies were discussing their plans for 1916, the Central Powers were, obviously, doing the same and they seized the strategic initiative early in the year.

After WWI ended, the Allied powers decided they would host their own international sporting competition in Paris. The YMCA funded a special stadium, which held 20,000 people.