Articles – Page 33 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 11, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Baghdad falls to British/Indian forces

Major Paul Knight considers how a renewed Allied campaign in Mesopotamia resulted in Baghdad's capture on 11 March 1917.

March 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Article: The New Statesman on Russia’s explosion of unrest in 1917

Professor David Reynolds, writing in the New Statesman, discusses the impact of the Great War on the 'uniquely combustible city' of Petrograd a century ago.

April 2, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown Blog: US Cabinet backs war

The events of March 1917 which resulted in President Woodrow Wilson summoning a special session of Congress to declare war are told in this latest post from US blogger Dennis Cross.

April 6, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: America declares war on Germany

The US finally entered the First World War on 6 April 1917, ending President Wilson's attempts to stay neutral, as Patrick Gregory explains.

April 6, 2017 CN Editorial Team

America Goes to War – WWI Centenary photo tribute to the ‘Doughboys’

Photographer Mike Sheil's latest touring exhibition, marking the US Centennial of entry into the First World War, has opened in the City of London.

April 13, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Face-to-Face’ in Arras with troops of the Great War

A street display of pictures in Arras brings visitors close to soldiers and many others who served here during the First World War.

April 16, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Article: French President’s unity call on Chemin des Dames Centenary

'It is not a question of judging but bringing together' – the newspaper Libération highlights President Hollande's call to remember all those who fought on the Chemin des Dames in April 1917, including soldiers later shot for mutiny.