Ww1 battles

A look at the 1917 battle through the eyes of historians

Attack on the Maginot Line in France. Illustrator Achille Beltrame , from La Domenica del Corriere, 1940.

WW1fotohistory on Instagram: “German soldiers on the front at the First Battle of the Marne , 6-10 September 1914 . The battle of the Marne was a major turning point of…”

Twenty years before the Blitz Germany launched devastating bombing attacks on Britain using Zeppelins which caused destruction in London and other cities for three years.

Description acrylics 2012. Top left: Soldier on sentry duty during a gas attack, wearing a Sappenpanzer m/17 body armour. Western Front, winter 1918. Top right: Stosstruppe from an assault platoon, Aisne, June 1918. Stormtrooper is wearing a steel helmet, with fitted hessian cover. He is armed with Bergmann Maschinenpistole m/18 and a stick grenade. Middle: Lys, April 1918. In the foreground, German ligh machinegunners, armed with Maschinengewehr 08/15 provide support to the assaulting…

Post with 0 votes and 6929 views. Color by me: Somme, In late July 1916. The 23rd RI fighters in a trench. [736x1008]

By Cheshire Military Museum for War History Online The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First

JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL says the battle that became a byword for futility 100 years ago taught British troops how to win the war