Follow this timeline to chart the key events and figures ... Before Pearl Harbor, the US military had been totally unprepared for a world war.

How real was it? By Dan Cruickshank. Women in uniform were a novelty in 1914 and yet 80,000 women served in the forces as non-combatants during World War One. Discover how one exceptional ...

A war to end all wars' The First World War was the first truly global conflict – the battle raged not just in the trenches of the Western Front but in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.