A woman inherits a map of a World War I battlefield in France from her grandfather, an engineer under General Pershing. The map is of St. Mihiel, a little-known but key battle in which U.S. forces ...

Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918, despite attempts on both sides to break through.

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.

(Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 to see the modern map) ...

in the summer of 1914, a series of events set off an unprecedented global conflict that ultimately claimed the lives of more than 16 million people, dramatically redrew the maps of Europe ...

A woman inherits a map of a World War I battlefield in France from her grandfather, an engineer under General Pershing. The map is of St. Mihiel, a little-known but key battle in which U.S. forces ...