Two ships from the German navy had an outsize part in the history of the First World War: the Goeben and Breslau. Our coverage in the December 5, 1914, issue gives a description of them—size and guns ...

As a pioneer work on the diplomacy of the war and post-war periods this book is distinctly welcome. The writer surveys the developments of the years 1914-1918, concentrating attention upon the major ...

The Vatican flag flies with the flags of nations outside the U.N. headquarters in New York. (Credit: Bob Roller/CNS.) Listen ROME – Pontifical diplomacy took on a new approach in 1914, with the ...

‘Memorial diplomacy’, on display in June’s D-Day commemorations, is a mode of symbolic soft power politics which uses sites of memory and commemorative events to boost relations. AAP When French ...

One hundred years ago began the war to end all wars. World War I, or the Great War, was a war based on unilateral actions, miscalculations and misunderstandings. This inauspicious centenary has been ...