On the battlefields of World War I (1914-1919)

Crew members of a British submarine at the wheelhouse before setting out to sea.

Greeting King George V on the deck of a submarine.

Crew members of one of the submarines on the deck.

The periscope of a submarine submerging.

A sailor in the engine room of the submarine.

A rendezvous of submarines at sea.

Officers on the bridge of a submarine approaching a sailing vessel.

The deck gun crew prepares to open fire.

A sailing vessel is drifting.

The sailing vessel is sinking.

A submarine on a combat mission, on the surface.

Loading a torpedo into the tube.

The submarine commander looks through the periscope.

The vessel is directly ahead of the submarine.

The commander gives the command to launch.

The torpedo is launched.

The torpedo hits the vessel, explosion.

The submarine's deck gun crew opens fire.

Sinking transport ships.

The submarine is sinking.

A military transport convoy is en route.

Warships sail in formation.

Destroyers on a combat mission.

British submarines surface at base.

A French military convoy moves to the front in 1914. A French battery of heavy guns, pulled by ox teams, crosses a floating bridge built by sappers.

The battery takes up a firing position.

French gunners open fire.

Cavalry action in the open.

German officers at an observation post, fighting on the French front at the beginning of World War I, German infantry and cavalry on the march, panorama of the front line.

German troops on the march.

French military convoys mixed with refugees move along the roads.

The attack of German lancers.

French artillery opens fire.

German infantry advances to the attack.

Text of an appeal to the people of Paris.

Photograph of the commander of the defense of Paris, General Gallieni.

Text of General Gallieni's order, September 3, 1914. Sappers dismantle pavement to build barricades on city streets.

French infantrymen in a fascine position on the outskirts of Paris.

Telephone operators at their positions conduct negotiations.

Defence staff officers at a map.

The disposition of troops on a map during the German offensive on Paris.

General Gallieni at headquarters.

A telephone operator at a field telephone.

A German cavalry unit moves towards Paris.

French soldiers during a combat mission assignment.

Parisian taxis deliver French troops to positions on the Marne on September 7, 1914. A soldier next to a taxi driver.

A column of taxis with troops leaves the Parisian suburbs.

The raising of a French telescopic tower with an artillery spotter.

Participants in a patriotic demonstration in Paris.

An observation post of one of the French units on the front lines.

American soldiers aboard a transport ship arriving in France in June 1917 (panorama).

American soldiers disembarking at the port.

An American army unit on a city street.

General Joffre transfers command of the French army to General Nivelle in 1916. A French officer is awarded a medal in front of the formation.

British infantry attack on the Western Front.

German officers in an underground shelter.

The shadow of a passing airplane.

Emperor Wilhelm II presents an award to a common soldier at the front in 1916. French soldiers at an ammunition depot.

A view of a destroyed neighborhood in a French city.

French soldiers clear a rubble of bricks.

French soldiers in trenches on the front lines.

A supply train and French cavalry move through city streets in 1916-1917. An infantry regiment of the French army marches in parade formation.

General Joffre reviews the parade in the field.

Drummers and a bugler of the military band.

Faces of French soldiers of the color platoon.

General Joffre inspects the formation of a military unit during a field review.

French infantry marches in parade formation during a review.

French infantry units march to the front lines.

French soldiers occupy trenches.

German and French troops are engaged in combat, infantry is attacking.

French soldiers captured by the Germans are walking along the road to the rear, carrying the wounded on stretchers.

A wounded man is loaded onto an ambulance.

A column of French prisoners of war is moving.

Hot food is distributed to the French prisoners of war.

Gun limbers and carts taken as trophies by the German army.

Faces of French colonial soldiers captured by the Germans (panorama).

German prisoners of war walk along a French trench.

German prisoners of war leave the trenches to the rear, carrying the wounded on stretchers.

A column of German prisoners of war under escort of French cavalrymen.

The arrival of another batch of German prisoners of war at a French camp.

German prisoners of war behind barbed wire.

German soldiers carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher.

The loading of German wounded into the carriages of a narrow-gauge train.

Loading the wounded into ambulances; the wounded are transported on handcarts.

A train carrying the wounded departs.

A French machine gun crew prepares to open fire.

A German stormtrooper throws a grenade into an enemy trench.

German and French troops engage in combat.

Machine gunners and flamethrowers in battle.

Corpses of soldiers at the bottom of a trench.

French infantry and artillery in battle.

A meeting of the Entente delegation members before the Big Four summit in Paris on May 27, 1919 (top).

French soldiers awarded medals stand at the entrance to the palace.

People in the square applaud the Big Four conference participants, and a crowd runs (panorama, top).

Artillery shells explode during the shelling of the front lines during military operations on one of the fronts of World War I. Infantry in a trench before the attack.

French soldiers in a trench await the command to attack the enemy.

Infantry attacks in the open.

A flamethrower crew in combat.

French soldiers in a trench, wearing gas masks, wait out an enemy gas attack.

A German tank crosses a trench.

French military signalmen in a trench near a radio station.

A French artillery crew fires at the enemy.

French stormtroopers throw grenades.

A French assault group attacks the enemy.

An assault force in combat, storming an enemy position shrouded in smoke.

A French infantry unit rushes toward the barbed wire, forging a passage into enemy territory.

German soldiers captured during a sortie run toward the French positions with their hands raised.

French soldiers return after a sortie, evacuating a wounded comrade.

Faces of captured German soldiers (panorama).

Interviewing German prisoners of war.

A German prisoner of war chews bread in a French camp.

The daily life of German prisoners of war.

German prisoners of war write letters to their families.

German prisoners of war play chess and cards.

Panoramic views of the destruction in the cities of Béthune, Cambrai, and Reims as a result of fighting in May 1918. French soldiers help the local population plough the land before spring sowing; tractors plowing.

Seeing off German troops to the front in August 1914, soldiers marching in formation.

A map of the location of fortresses in the Verdun and Belfort area, indicating the attack plans of the German command, against a background of newsreel footage.

German military operations on the Western Front in France.

Refugees walk along the roads of Belgium and France, carrying their belongings in carts and handbarrows.

British troops disembark from a transport vessel.

British soldiers march along the street of a French city.

A column of military trucks moves.

A map of the battlefield against a background of newsreel footage.

German infantry on the march.

French heavy guns cross a pontoon bridge.

A battery of ox-drawn heavy guns takes up firing positions.

French soldiers are transported by taxis to the front on the Marne in September 1914; a soldier sits next to a taxi driver.

A map of the advance of German troops against the background of newsreels of artillerymen from the warring countries.

A panorama of a pile of spent shell casings.

French troops at the railway tracks.

Artillery shells being delivered to their positions along a narrow-gauge railway.

Refugees flee a burning city.

German cavalry moves along the roads of France.

Combat operations of the German army.

Officers at the command post.

Russian soldiers captured by the Germans (panorama).

Residents of East Prussia greet General Hindenburg.

Warships of the German fleet in Kiel Bay (panorama).

The ship's commander boards the launch.

Stokers start steaming.

The ship's machinery and mechanisms in operation.

A German destroyer leaves the bay.

View of the bow of the deck of a warship (top).

Warships of the British fleet on a combat mission.

The British naval ensign on the topmast.

The bow turret rotates.

Mechanics at the ship's engines.

Artillerymen take up their battle stations.

Combat operations at sea, naval artillery firing, crews working in the gun turrets.

Sinking ships.

Artillerymen in gas masks carry a wounded comrade to the ship's hospital.

Ships of various classes in a naval battle.

Torpedoes launched from onboard launchers.

A torpedo hits an enemy ship.

Fire brigade actions.

A warship submerged up to the edge of the deck (panorama, from above).

The warship capsizes as a result of the holes it sustained.

Signals from the gunners.

The bottom of the capsized ship, people slip into the water, swim away from the sinking vessel.

Photographs of defensive positions and soldier corpses after artillery preparation (from above).

Photographs of field prayers conducted by French military chaplains.

A wounded Russian soldier being unloaded from an ambulance van.

Wounded Russian soldiers in an Orthodox church converted into a hospital.

German soldiers at the mass grave of their comrades.

A photograph of German soldiers during a funeral.

The daily life and rest of German soldiers during a lull at the front, shaving in the field.

A German soldier picks lice from his underwear.

Photographs of Karl Liebknecht among his comrades during his time at the front.

A photograph of Churchill during a visit to the front.

US President Woodrow Wilson during the farewell ceremony for American troops to Europe, with American soldiers marching.

A parade of American troops before their departure to Europe.

Women present flowers to soldiers marching in formation.

View of the parade formation (top).

Portrait of Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand's castle in Konopiště.

The ceremonial exit from the palace gates.

Photograph of Archduke Ferdinand with his wife.

A crowd on the sidewalk greeting the Archduke.

French troops in formation during a field inspection review in 1915-1916. An actor as Nicholas II. A parade of units of the Grenadier Corps in Moscow.

A patriotic rally in a Western European country.

Young Englishmen enlist as volunteers in the army in 1914. English recruits march to their barracks.

A unit of horse artillery moves along a London street.

Troops march in parade formation through the streets of Berlin.

Review of British troops.

General Joffre and representatives of the Entente command salute the troops during a field review and parade.

French troops on parade.

General Joffre converses with an Allied representative.

General Joffre and his accompanying troops greet the British allies at a train carriage.

A British general, accompanied by General Joffre, inspects the honor guard company.

View of the Moscow Kremlin in 1914. Nicholas II receives the report of His Majesty's Own Convoy Commander.

The Grand Duchesses and Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich at the entrance to the barracks.

Nicholas II, the Heir Apparent, and the accompanying troops inspect the convoy.

Nicholas II and the Heir Apparent congratulate the convoy officers on their regimental holiday.

Nicholas II with the Heir Apparent and his daughters among the convoy officers.

Russian troops marching in winter during the fighting on the Caucasian Front in 1915-1916. Escorting prisoners.

Disembarking the wounded from an ambulance.