A specific assault within the larger Dardanelles strategy, the Gallipoli campaign began at dawn on 25 April 1915. The campaign was intended to allow the Allied ships to pass through the Dardanelles and capture Constantinople (now Istanbul). General...
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Hunger stalked the civilian populations of all the combatant nations. Agriculture and food distribution suffered from strains imposed by the war and naval blockades reduced food imports. Some countries met this threat more successfully than others. The...
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By 1917 a multi-national Allied force under French General Sarrail numbering 500,000 troops faced the Bulgarian Army and German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish units, totalling 300,000 men. The front line stretched from Albania to the mouth of the River...
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By late 1914, movement on the Western Front had ground to a halt. Some Allied leaders suggested opening new fronts to break the deadlock, shorten the war and avoid heavier loss of life. Soon after the start of the new year, Great Britain and France...
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The British vision of the First World War is dominated by the Western Front, but the war was fought on a wider scale. On the Eastern Front, Russia fought Germany and Austria-Hungary, generally failing against the former, but fatally weakening the latter...
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As the scale and the duration of the First World War escalated, the priority for every combatant nation was to ensure that their armed forces had sufficient weaponry, supplies and equipment. In Britain, the newly-created Ministry of Munitions assumed...