With his final breaths, one of the aviators provided information to give Allied artillery accurate coordinates to target ...

General Haig, the senior British officer, planned to destroy the German defences with an intense seven day artillery bombardment and by detonating a series of massive mines under enemy lines.

The German, Ottoman, Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires collapsed and were replaced by states such as Poland, Estonia, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, with much of Europe redrawn along ethnic lines.

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Michael St. Maur Sheil Ten thousand men were killed within seconds when the British exploded 19 mines under German lines during the Battle of Messines in Belgium. Michael St. Maur Sheil Nearly 70 ...