Animated Map: The Western Front, 1914 - 1918. Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front.

1 OSTKRIEG: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East, by Stephen G. Fritz (Univ. of Kentucky, $39.95). Hitler had grand designs for a "Greater Germany" that required the domination of the Eastern ...

Last year’s emergency need for almost 2,000,000 tons of imported rice (a record figure, one-seventh of Japan’s total consumption) was part of the urge that made her seize Indo-China.

When World War I comes up in popular culture, ... With Tannenberg, just like Verdun, we wanted to try to encompass the entire Eastern Front. We have maps from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

David Brennan is Newsweek's Diplomatic Correspondent covering world politics and conflicts from London with a focus on NATO, the European Union, and the Russia-Ukraine War. David joined Newsweek ...

40 maps that explain World War I by Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee and Matthew Yglesias on August 4, 2014 One hundred years ago today, on August 4, 1914, German troops began pouring over the ...

Russian soldiers on World War I's Eastern Front. As if Spanish Flu, chemical weapons and trench foot weren't enough to make the war especially miserable, the corpses that littered the battlefields ...

Most histories and images of World War One make it seem as if it was a purely European war, waged by Europeans alone. Published October 5, 2014 World War One: the eastern wind ...

Russian forces have made marginal gains in recent days in Ukraine's east, according to the Institute for the Study of War (), whose latest maps depict the state of play on the front line.The ...

1. Moscow residents listen to the June 22 government radio announcement on the invasion of Nazi Germany. Evgeny Khaldey/Sputnik 2. Wehrmacht soldiers on the Eastern front in 1941. U.S. National ...

Unlike the stationary front lines and trenches on the Western Front, the war in the east was one of movement. The Russian Empire advanced west, only to be pushed back in mid-1915 even farther than ...

Russian forces have made marginal gains in recent days in Ukraine's east, according to the Institute for the Study of War ...