We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across ...

Here, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War—which began a hundred years ... many of whom would not survive the nightmare of trench warfare. The conflict began with mounted cavalry ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

The trenches systems were on every front of World War One. A front is a stretch of land where warring countries confront each other and engage in battle. Trenches were widespread on the Western ...

But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One ... During the first Christmas of the war, something unique happened in some parts of the Western Front.

The Eastern Front, February, 1917 The First World War had been raging for nearly three years. The battles were horrific. A combination of modern weaponry and antiquated tactics turned the fighting ...

Canadian Lieutenant Colonel Ian Sinclair described the scene: "Our trenches were shortly ... effective gas attack in modern warfare. During First World War, gas attacks killed or injured an ...

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.

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