Articles

France Built a Decoy Paris to Fool German Bombers During World War I
How do you save Paris from German bombers? By building a life-sized decoy city, of course.

World War I Centenary To Be Marked by Recreation of Christmas Day Soccer Match
The historic Christmas Day soccer match between British and German troops in 1914 is set to be recreated next year for the centenary of World War I.

A Sea of Troubles: Asia Today Compared to Europe Before World War I
In separate opinion pieces this week, two former Asian foreign ministers likened Asia now to pre-World War I Europe, then strung together by a tangle of imperial...

Why Did World War I Just End?
World War I ended over the weekend. Germany made its final reparations-related payment for the Great War on Oct. 3, nearly 92 years after the country's defeat by...

Downton Abbey Returns to America: Writer Julian Fellowes Tells All About the Crawley Family (and World War I)
During the first season of Downton Abbey, the aristocratic Crawley family and their busybody servants endured a succession crisis and the death of a Turkish...
Photo Essays

American Atrocity: Remembering My Lai
Through the centuries, whether combatants have fought with spears, bows and arrows, muzzle-loading rifles, naval cannons, long-range bombers, nuclear weapons or...

After Pearl Harbor: LIFE in the Pacific and on the Homefront
President Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7, 1941 — when Japan launched more than 350 fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes against the U.S. naval base at...


