The Germans sank two of the four British ships with the loss of more than 1,600 lives. Not a single German sailor died. The defeat at Coronel sent shock waves through the British empire and beyond.

They inflicted major casualties and on 22 August Lieutenant ... developed dazzle camouflage to protect ships from German U-boats in WW1 WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?

More than 500 of the ship's crew died when it was attacked by a German U-boat in October 1914 ... aim to find shipwrecks to remember wartime losses in Scottish waters. HMS Hawke, a 387ft (118m ...

B ecause the Jewish people have never been truly safe in any nation for the long term, I reluctantly accept and support the ...

a WWI ship that sank after being torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1914. Diver Steve Mortimer told the BBC that the wreck is a "really remarkable time capsule." The Tobol had been missing for over ...

Germany accumulated huge losses and gained little territory ... They fought for control of the Kamina wireless station. WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?

In woods on a ridge not far from the city of Reims, the bodies of more than 270 German soldiers have lain for more than a century - after they died the most agonising deaths imaginable.

The horrible stalemate of the preceeding years, in which the two sides traded millions of casualties over a few ... or "salient" in the German lines near St. Mihiel. MacArthur's Rainbow Division ...

While the 58-foot-long bronze sculpture in Washington D.C. will now be the country's foremost World War I memorial, it is far ...

A long-lost Royal Navy warship from World War One has been discovered off the coast of Aberdeenshire, and its remarkable condition has left divers astonished. The wreck, believed to be HMS Hawke ...

The action was particularly important because as a consequence of the battle, the German East Asia Squadron ... light on what was a defining point in WWI, and therefore a landmark moment in ...

a WWI ship that sank after being torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1914. Diver Steve Mortimer told the BBC that the wreck is a "really remarkable time capsule." The Tobol had been missing for over ...