Tear gas was recently used to disperse crowds in Ferguson, Missouri

Photos make stark contrast with those from bloody battlefields in years that followed

Composite images put moments from the conflict in the present day

Any direct connection with the conflict has gone but we’re not ready to consign it to history, says John Lichfield

The conclusion of the ‘war to end all  wars’ was greeted with understandable jubilation. But, writes Boyd Tonkin, new storm clouds were already gathering

Ten years ago, Max Arthur interviewed the last 21 British veterans of the Great War, the oldest of which was 109. Nearly all the men were talking about their experiences for the first time

John Lichfield on the strange meeting in the forest of Compiègne that culminated in the signing of the Armistice

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke describes to his wife the rising tide of popular unrest in Munich

Wilfred Owen’s death, like his poems, captured the pity of war. John Walsh charts his journey from innocence to iconic status

When the US expeditionary force launched its first independent action, the results were devastating

John Lichfield describes the unexpectedly spectacular Allied breakthrough that launched a 100-day push to victory