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The Accidental Army Documentary
The 1914-1920 Czech Legion is the focus of a new documentary entitled "The Accidental Army: The Amazing True Story of the Czechoslovak Legion" by the Czech Legion Project more...
At one time on the cutting edge of naval development, the unlucky Russalka disappeared in 1893 without a trace. more...
Built on the same design of the USS Monitor, the Russalka guarded St Petersburg for 30 years more...
The cruisers Emden of the German Navy and Zhemchug of the Russian Navy were matched on paper but not in actuality. more...
New and fast, the Zhemchug was a bright star in the Russian Imperial Navy during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905 more...
Spy Scholar Dr. Sylvanus Morley
The book wormy anthropologist Sylvanus Griswold Morley used his studies and his camera as a cover to become a very successful US spy during World War One and an inspirati more...
When World War One erupted 28 year old Leutnant zur See Gunther Plüschow, flying an already obsolete airplane, was the Kaisers entire air force in China. more...
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By: Ivan Castro
The assassination on June 28, 1914 of the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by a member of the Serbian Black Hand movement spar more...
By: Ivan Castro
Even though similar treaties were signed with the other defeated Central Powers, the 1919Treaty of Versailles which officially ended World War I between Germany and the A more...
World War One and Military Mobilization
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Michael Streich
In July 1914 Russian and Austrian orders for a general mobilization started the process that took millions of men to the battlefield in a prolonged and bloody war. more...
Mussolini Paid by British Secret Service
The historian Peter Martland maintains that the Italian dictator received £100 a week to support the alliance with UK. The money should have been spent on mistresses. more...
By: Murray McLeod
Charles Ulm's career was plagued by uncommonly bad fortune. His visionary hopes for Australian aviation were eventually realised, but he was not destined to witness them. more...
RFC Fighter Pilot Deaths in World War One
By: Murray Sager
By the end of the First World War it was clear that Royal Flying Corps training methods and airplanes had killed more pilots than combat with the Germans over France. more...
By: Murray McLeod
Rudolf Bertold's 44 combat victories were unique in that they were achieved by a pilot; terribly disabled by woundings. more...
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