The War in the News

Pope travels to former battlefields where grandfather fought in WWI

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How World War I ushered in the modern world

Imagine you're a military officer in World War I. Armies have grown so large, you can no longer communicate just by the sound of your voice or the wave of your hand. You… ∞

Virginia Tattoo to honor US entry into WWI

J. Scott Jackson calls it the worst kind of tattoo regret. When someone approaches the director of the Virginia International Tattoo and admits to him that, even though they’re a long-time resident of… ∞

The telegram that brought America into the war

A hundred years after British intelligence intercepted the Zimmermann telegram, Dr David Kenyon, research historian at Bletchley Park, talks about how the telegram altered the course of the First World War and influenced… ∞