The First World War was the first conflict in which chemistry was used for both offensive and defensive strategies. With Germany leading the way in the chemical sciences, it was imperative for the ...

All along the Western Front of the First World War, which stretched for some 700 km from the North Sea to the Franco-Swiss border, a series of 139 funerary and memorial sites bear witness to the ...

Relentless shelling and bombing laid waste to the town of Ypres in Belgium during the First World War. Seen here in an aerial shot on New Year's Day 1915, the landscape is scarred and buildings ...