The Kaiser’s secret weapons
From ‘Big Bertha’ to exploding motor boats, Germany’s military engineers were the source of much innovation during the First World War, as David Porter explains.
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The Central Powers by numbers
Infographics: Calum Henderson
In Brief
MHM’s round-up of the latest military history releases.
The men behind the wire: British POWs in the First World War
Joseph O’Neill lifts the lid on a hidden story of POW maltreatment.
Blood and Iron: the rise and fall of the German Empire 1871-1918
Just over halfway through her excellent new book on Germany between the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the ‘Captain of Köpenick’ incident. In 1906, an petty criminal called Wilhelm Voigt went around…