The First Battle of the Marne marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of the trench warfare that was to characterise World War One. Germany's grand Schlieffen Plan to ...

The Battle of the Somme is one of the largest and bloodiest conflicts of World War One. Nearly 20,000 British soldiers die on the first day ... German forces on the Marne and force them to ...

On this day 110 years ago, French and British forces along the Marne River were suffering through arguably the most important battle of World War I ... put to use one tiny advantage that ...