Author: Historic Slumber

In 1915, World War I stopped being a short European conflict — and became a global catastrophe. Poison gas drifted across the trenches of Ypres. Thousands died on the beaches of Gallipoli. Russia collapsed into the Great Retreat. Serbia was overrun. The Lusitania sank beneath the Atlantic. And the war spread from Europe to the Middle East. This is the complete story of the year the Great War expanded — militarily, geographically, and morally. From the Second Battle of Ypres and the first large-scale gas attacks… To the brutal mountain warfare of the Italian Front… To the Armenian Genocide… To…