The contribution of African soldiers to the war effort has often been overlooked A fortnight after Europe marked the 100th anniversary of the armistice that brought World War One to a close ...

James Edward Hanger became an amputee during ... received contracts with both England and France during and after World War One to supply artificial limbs to Allied soldiers.

BBC drama programming to mark the centenary of World War One. BBC One Sarah Phelps’ gripping ... and rising star James McArdle (Love And Marriage, Appropriate Adult), as well as a leading ...

Goebbels worked to inflame the anger of Germans over their defeat in World War I and emphasized German ... United States President Franklin Roosevelt found the speech so inspiring that he ...

Roosevelt’s campaign introduced Americans to the New Deal that would become his signature government reform, one ... war world. Major Acts As with Lincoln, the other great wartime president, it is ...

In four years, American industrial production, already the ... 1,550,000. One came off the line every 63 minutes. America launched more vessels in 1941 than Japan did in the entire war.

During the Second World War, over 5,000 ships took ... Among those wounded giants was one of the most famous: the aircraft ...

James B. Conant, then President of the University, spoke before a large audience in Sanders Theatre. "The United States is now at war . . . . We are here tonight to testify that each one of us ...

Rumors are swirling in the college football world that ... Gainesville. One name that’s bound to emerge in speculation as Florida’s next head coach is Penn State’s James Franklin.

I think I talked to you guys about it before with the special forces leadership from all over the world really ... On ...

Auckland Museum Collection: EPH–W1–1–231. An 18-pounder ... Vere Bogle was the second of James and Annie Bogle’s three sons to die in World War I. As the Regimental Medical Officer ...

The whole world noticed that success, including the NFL. After the Houston Texans hired O’Brien to be their head coach, Penn State hired James ... either one came to Penn State. So Franklin ...