World War I |August 1914 | Recruitment | Sam Hughs | To England |To France | 2nd Battle of Ypres | Battle of St Julien | The Navel War | Festabert | Givenchy | Canadian Corps | The Air War | Newfoundland | The Somme | St Eloi Crater | Mount Sorrel | Hill 70 | Passchendaele | Vimy Ridge | Amiens | Cambrai | Mons | Flanders Fields | Victory

The First World War, or as some called it, the Great War, was truely a global conflict with battlefields girdling the globe form Europe to the Pacific, and from Africa to the North Atlantic. Ignited by a regional issue, the flames fanned by the powerful forces of nationalism, and the explosion born of a new type of war - war by timetable. The combatants all believed that the could win a quick decisive victory which would lead to the next level of global domination, but were sucked into a drawn out, bloody struggle with no victory, just a time out for twenty years and than a resumption of the contest. This was the first modern war with machines and technology playing a major role in the battles, the war and the outcome.