In the summer of 1914, tension was building across Europe. In the east ... World War I had some of the deadliest battles in history. Ypres, Verdun, the Somme, Gallipoli and Tannenberg are names ...

Winston Churchill calls for a "kind of United States of Europe" in a speech at Zurich University. Robert Schuman, the French Foreign Minister, proposes that France, Germany and any other European ...