Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. All are examples of the kind of work featured in Stand To!
Why the British Army did not mutiny en masse on the Western Front during the First Wo…
Why the British Army did not mutiny en masse on the Western Front during the First World War Many historians of the G…
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The Rationale for and the Deployment of Poisonous Gas on The Western Front in the Gre…
The rationale for and the deployment of poisonous gas on The Western Front in the Great War Introduction In early 19…
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The BEF, Human Diseases and Trench Warfare on The Western Front
The BEF, Human Diseases and Trench Warfare on The Western Front Introduction The Great War was the first major co…
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Trench Diseases of the First World War
Trench Diseases of the First World War Introduction to the Western Front The establishment by the belligerent nations,…
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The One Hundred Days
The Final One Hundred Days of the Western Front Introduction The British involvement in war on the Western Front…
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'From Private to Major via the Foresters Arms': The life, death and rediscovery of Oc…
British visitors to the south of France will often take the A26 'Autoroute des Anglais' out of Calais. Some 140 miles do…
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Major 'Alastair' Soutar, M.C.
One of the well known 'classic' accounts of the First World War is 'Twelve Days' published in 1933 (and more recently re…
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Brothers in Arms
Detailed biographies of individuals who served during the First World War.
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Porton Revealed
General view of Porton from the water tower, c.1918. In the centre background is ’Gas Wood’, where the first gas cylin…
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Passchendaele and the Flanders U-Boats
There can be no doubt that the Flanders U-boats, the thirty seven small UB and UC vessels based at Bruges and going…
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'We Too Were Soldiers' by Dr Vivien Newman
WAAC workers and Chief Ordnance Office Staff, Rouen 1917 [This article was first published April 2007, Stand To! P…
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