The faces of World War I

• Introduction

• Chapter 1
• 1900-1914

• Chapter 2
• The First World War 1914-18 Battle of Mons

• Battle of Le Cateau

• First Battle of Ypres

• Battle of Neuve Chapelle

• Second Battle of Ypres

• Battle of Festubert

• Gallipoli

• Battle of Loos

• British troops at Salonika

• October Evacuation of Gallipoli

• Introduction of conscription

• Easter Rising

• Fall of Kut

• Battle of the Somme

• Attacks on the Hedjaz

• First Battle of Gaza

• Battle of Arras

• Second Battle of Gaza

• Battle of Messines Ridge

• Third Battle of Ypres

• Third Battle of Gaza

• Battle of Cambrai

• Fall of Jerusalem

• German offensive

• Battle of Amiens

• Battle of Megiddo

• Battle of Vittorio Veneto

• Armistice

• Chapter 3
• The Inter-war Years 1918-193 On campaign: Russian Civil War intervention

• Third Anglo-Afghan War

• Anglo-Irish War

• Arab Revolt in Palestine

• Changes to the Army in the post-war period: cavalry amalgamations and mechanisation

• formation of the Royal Corps of Signals

• Royal Army Pay Corps

• Royal Army Educational Corps

• Royal Army Dental Corps

• Corps of Royal Military Police

• Small Arms School Corps

• Women's Royal Army Corps

• Royal Pioneer Corps

• Chapter 4
• The Second World War 1939-45

• The Outbreak of War

• The Phoney War

• The Fall of France

• The War in the Desert

• The Greek Disaster

• Battles for Cyrenaica

• Operations in Iraq and Syria

• The War in the East

• The End in Africa

• The Invasion of Italy

• Stemming the Japanese Tide

• Breakthrough in Italy

• The Fall of Rome

• The Invasion of France

• D-Day Operations

• The Battle for Northwest Europe

• Breakthrough into Germany

• The end of the War From the Po Valley to the end

• The Liberation of Belsen

• VE Day VJ Day

• Chapter 5
• Post-War/ Cold-War 1945-1989

• The British Army in 1945

• Post-war disbandment and retention of units

• Start of the Cold War

• Global challenges and the use of force: Greek Civil War

• Palestine emergency

• The Berlin Blockade

• The Malayan Emergency

• British occupation force in Indochina

• Decolonisation and partition of India and Pakistan

• The Korean War

• African interventions

• The Middle East

• Peacekeeping roles 1964 to present

• End of National Service

• The Far East

• The Caribbean

• The Troubles in Northern Ireland

• Bloody Sunday

• Security duties

• The Falklands War

• 1980s peacekeeping: Sinai, Beirut, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia

• Chapter 6
• The Modern Age 1990-2006

• A snapshot of British Army organisation in 1990

• BAOR

• UKLF

• Overseas Garrisons

• Services

• the First Gulf War

• Bosnia and Kosovo

• Sierra Leone Civil War

• Operation Veritas in Afghanistan

• 22 SAS, and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)

• The invasion of Iraq, Operation Telic

• End matter/index