• First World War.Com
  This website contains much material based in and around the events of World War One - but if you are unsure how it began and who did what, well, where to begin?  That's the purpose of this section of the site.

• Death on the Wind: Gas Warfare
  The first use of gas was attributed to the Germans on the Russian front in 1915.

• Art of the First World War
  110 paintings from international collections commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

• President Woodrow Wilson's World War I Message
  delivered in a special session of Congress held on April 2, 1917.

• The First Lusitania Note to Germany
  Sent by the President of the United States, Mr. Woodrow Wilson. The Cunard liner, Lusitania, was sunk by a German submarine on May 7,1915.

• British Naval Vessels Lost at Sea, 1914-18
• Frontiers: The Machine Gun - examines the history and usage of the machine gun in World War I.
• Submarines of the Great War
• Trenches on the Web: Armory - 
  information and photos of everything from guns and tanks to U-boats and zeppelins.
• U-boat Attack, 1916 - information on how German submarines decimated merchant shipping during World War I.
• U-boat War: 1914-1918
• World War 1 Tanks 
   information on the introduction of tanks in 1916.
• British Naval Vessels Lost at Sea, 1914-18
• Frontiers: The Machine Gun  
  examines the history and usage of the machine gun in World War I.
• RMS Britannic  
  history of Titanic's sistership, sunk during WWI while serving as a hospital ship.
• Submarines of the Great War
• Trenches on the Web: Armory  
  information and photos of everything from guns and tanks to U-boats and zeppelins.
• U-boat Attack, 1916 - information on how German submarines decimated merchant shipping during World War I.
• U-boat War: 1914-1918
• World War 1 Tanks - information on the introduction of tanks in 1916.

• Letters Home from the War
  Almost regardless of where Army men found themselves located, the Y.M.C.A. would have a local facility, stocked with writing stationery and pens, where the men could sit and write letters home.

• Trenches on the Web: Gas Warfare -
  details the different types of gases and where they were used in addition to their physical effects and chemical mixtures.

• Encyclopaedia of the First World War

• Great War: 80 years on
  It is 80 years since the armistice silenced the guns of World War I. The war lasted from 1914-18, claimed 10 million lives and forever changed the political map of Europe. Using personal accounts and historical analysis BBC News Online looks back at what became known as "the war to end all wars".

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