About This Website

The purpose of this website is to provide an overview of the First World War.  Necessarily a long-term undertaking - and approaching seven years into the process - much remains to be covered.

Whole aspects of the conflict are light on material at present - rest assured, this is not deliberate: in time it should all find its place on the site.

A word of caution however; this is by no means a professional website.  It's authored as spare time permits and is intended at a general rather than academic readership.

Given this, it is not recommended that this site be used for academic reference purposes for school or university papers.  This is not so much a lack of confidence in the overall accuracy of the site's content as an acknowledgement that material on the site has not been submitted for formal peer review.

Sources, references and suggested further reading can be found by clicking here.  For those interested in such things information about site metrics is available here.

"Coffin Nails" was a term used by British soldiers to describe cigarettes.

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