'UNIQUE' NETWORK OF FIRST WORLD WAR TRAINING TUNNELS FOUND UNDER SALISBURY PLAIN

The day marks the landing of thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps Anzac on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey on April 25, 1915... READ MORE›

IS THIS THE START OF WORLD WAR III? THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT

World War II began when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, leading to Britain and France to declare war on Germany days later... READ MORE›

THE FIRST WORLD WAR HELPED SHAPE MODERN AMERICA. WHY IS IT SO FORGOTTEN?

On 6 April 1917, America declared war on Germany and charged into the first world war... READ MORE›

'NEVER THINK THAT WAR ... IS NOT A CRIME,' AND MORE DEFINING WWI QUOTES

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialized slaughter fear and appalling human suffering... READ MORE›

A CENTURY LATER, PLANS UNDERWAY FOR WWI MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON

A Korean War memorial followed, and in 2004, after years of debate, a World War II memorial... READ MORE›

HEROISM OF 42 OXBRIDGE BOAT RACE ROWERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR REVEALED

Among the boat race crews whose service for King, Country and their fellow servicemen cost them their lives was Edward Parker Wallman Wedd... READ MORE›

NAZI MEMORABILIA, WORLD WAR II-ERA TANK FOR SALE AT MASSIVE COWRA MUSEUM AUCTION

Working WWII-era tank, Nazi memorabilia up for grabs at museum auction... READ MORE›

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SAINSBURYS CHRISTMAS AD IS A DANGEROUS AND DISRESPECTFUL MASTERPIECE

Perhaps the greatest truism, even cliche about the first world war is that nobody ever really understood why it happened, what it was all about... READ MORE›

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS EVOKES EUROPES DARKEST HOUR

In Europe, we benefited from humanitarian assistance and the acceptance of refugees after the disaster that was World War II, Mr. Roth said... READ MORE›

BATTLEFIELD LANDSCAPES FROM FIRST WORLD WAR 100 YEARS ON

Above, the landscape of the Newfoundland Memorial Park, in Beaumont Hamel, with trenches, shell crater and wire pickets... READ MORE›

TOWER POPPY DISPLAY TO GO ON TOUR

The Royal British Legion has said it hopes the sale of the poppies, after the installation has been dismantled, will raise in excess of 15m... READ MORE›

GERMAN CONSERVATIVES ARE DESTROYING EUROPE WITH AUSTERITY, SAYS ECONOMIST THOMAS PIKETTY

German conservatives are destroying europe with austerity says economist thomas piketty... READ MORE›

WORLD LEADERS ACCUSED OF SHAMEFUL FAILURE OVER REFUGEE CRISIS

Almost 4 million people displaced from Syria have registered with the UN high commissioner for refugees... READ MORE›

NIGEL FARAGE: THE ARMISTICE WAS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF THE 20TH CENTURY

The Ukip leader, whose hobbies have included touring first world war battlefields with a group of friends, said: "The consensus is that the Treaty of Versailles was too punitive... READ MORE›

AUSTRIA NOW SAYS OVER 70 BODIES THOUGHT TO BE MIGRANTS WERE IN TRUCK

The Austrian daily newspaper Kronen Zeitung said that 71 bodies were recovered from the truck... READ MORE›

EUROPE'S CURRENT ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC CARRIES ECHOES OF 1930S ANTI-SEMITISM

Even during World War II, let alone before it started, antisemitism was rife in American political and public life... READ MORE›

DIGITAL MOSAIC OF FALLEN WW1 PRIVATE

Artist, Helen Marshall, 43, said she looked through hundreds of World War One images before choosing Pte Beaney... READ MORE›

WRECK OF SECOND WORLD WAR BRITISH SUBMARINE FOUND OFF DENMARK

The 84-metre T-class submarine sailed from Rosyth, Fife, in order, it is thought, to attack German merchant ships supplying arms to Nazi-occupied Norway... READ MORE›

70 YEARS LATER HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED AMERICA

Even as World War II was ending 70 years ago, Americans already knew it had transformed their country... READ MORE›

FOREST OUTSIDE NAZI DEATH CAMP YIELDS DISTURBING FIND

During World War II, the Nazis were known to adjust Stutthof's size depending on their needs... READ MORE›

'NAZI GOLD TRAIN' FOUND IN POLAND COULD BELONG TO RUSSIA AS COMPENSATION FOR WW2

Nazi 'gold train' Treasure could be claimed by Russia as compensation for Second World War... READ MORE›

GRAPH OF WORLD WARS BY NUMBER DEAD AND DURATION OF CONFLICT SHOWS HOW WAR IS VERY MUCH NOT BEHIND US

It might be 100 years since the Great War, but the world remains a very turbulent place... READ MORE›

ABANDONED WORLD WAR II STRUCTURES, IN PICTURES

Photographer Marc Wilson's series of abandoned World War II military buildings and their surrounding landscapes... READ MORE›

'WE CAN DO IT!' HUNDREDS DRESS UP AS WWII ICON ROSIE THE RIVETER

They'd just tentatively broken the Guinness World Record for most Rosies in one place since WWII... READ MORE›

STORNOWAY MUST NOT BE FORGOTTEN IN THE REMEMBRANCE DAY COMMEMORATIONS

In the township of Ness in northern Lewis, residents have put red poppies outside their houses to symbolise the relatives they lost... READ MORE›

BRITAIN TO REPAY A?2BN FIRST WORLD WAR DEBT

The Government can currently borrow money at record low interest rates, so it makes financial sense to replace old debt borrowed at higher interest rates... READ MORE›

REFUGE AND RESPONSIBILITY: THE AGE-OLD LESSONS THAT EUROPE FORGETS

Palestinian refugees, in their hundreds of thousands, are our responsibility... READ MORE›

WWII TANK WAS STASHED IN 78-YEAR-OLD'S CELLAR

Prosecutors meanwhile are investigating whether possession of the tank torpedo anti-aircraft gun and other weapons violates Germany's War Weapons Control Act... READ MORE›

100 YEARS AFTER VIMY RIDGE, YOUNG CANADIANS GET CLOSE TO VETERANS OF HISTORIC BATTLE

It is really your own history, so many Canadians are connected with someone from the First World War... READ MORE›

HITLER SECRETLY MADE THE WEAPONS OF THE FUTURE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

First flown in 1944, the Horten Ho 229 was the world's premiere stealth aircraft, equipped with twin turbojet engines, two cannons, and R4M rockets... READ MORE›

11am Two hours before Germany's deadline to France expired, Baron von Schoen, the Kaiser's ambassador in Paris, presented himself to Viviani to receive France's reply... READ MORE›

THE FIRST WORLD WAR IS STILL WITH US. THATS WHY WE REMEMBER

What is so striking about the first world war is that it has long stirred a symmetrical hostility in the collective folklore of the right... READ MORE›

V-J DAY: RARE COLOUR ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWS PEOPLE CELEBRATING END OF WORLD WAR II

Video V-J Day rare colour archive footage shows people celebrating end of World War II... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS OF PAIRS OF SHOES OF NAZI PRISONERS DISCOVERED IN POLISH FOREST

Ms Drywa also speculated that the shoes may once have lain in the camp's rubbish tip... READ MORE›

BRITISH GENERAL'S LETTER REVEALS DETAILS OF 1914 CHRISTMAS DAY TRUCE

But Sir Walter, who led the Rifles Brigade and drafted the letter after visiting trenches near Neuve Chapelle, declined to join in... READ MORE›

NAZI TANK, TORPEDO AND FLAK CANNON DISCOVERED IN A BASEMENT IN GERMANY

Police searching in a villa in a wealthy German suburb have found a Second World War tank, a torpedo and other illegal weaponry in the basement... READ MORE›

WORLD WAR I: ANIMALS AT WAR, IN PICTURES

Horses, donkeys, mules and camels carried food, water, ammunition and medical supplies to men at the front, and dogs and pigeons carried messages... READ MORE›