"[The shells] simply dropped from space like some huge meteorite." On March 21, 1918, terror suddenly rained down from the ...

The machine-gun ... did an artist help Britain fight the war at sea? Dr Sam Willis discovers how the British artist Norman Wilkinson developed dazzle camouflage to protect ships from German U ...

But when World War One started they became weapons. Pilots could ... were small enough for personal use. Photographs allowed the army to spy on the Germans and make maps of the trenches and ...