but there was one event that halted the brutality and bloodshed: the famous World War I Christmas Truce of 1914. It was the first Christmas of the war. It was a day for peace – if only fleeting.

The first shots of World War One are fired in Africa. By 1914 the German Empire has four colonies in East, West and South Africa. British and French forces invade Togoland the site of a key German ...

The first part of this series looks at how ... This film brings together stories of unparalleled bravery as descendants of World War One pipers visit the Somme and Gallipoli, the battlefields ...