An animation by Winsor McCay depicting the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/ws5kGs_J-CM copyright: British Pathé...

Churchill was always a risk-taker and often his enthusiasm swept aside any anxieties others may have felt He pushed for the high-risk offensive operation of the Dardanelles, saying ‘this is the...

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The present war has revised all military theories about the field of fire … The question to be solved … is the actual getting across of 100 or 200 yards of open space and wire entanglements.

The armistice to end the First World War was signed on 11 November 1918, and determined a ceasefire at 11am that morning. This is now commemorated as Armistice Day, and each year at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month there is a two-minute silence for people to pause and remember those who died during the conflict. Read Churchill’s own recollection of the day in , and also Dr Warren Dockter’s consideration of one of the most remarkable aspects of Churchill’s character in .

Churchill wearing a French steel helmet during a visit to the French front line on 5 December 1915, shortly before taking command of the battalion on the Western Front Here, he’s...

Whatever else they may say of me as a soldier, at least nobody can say I have ever failed to display a meet and proper appreciation of the virtues of alcohol.