ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. -- War is hell; its horrors brought to light in literature, art and music. Usually portrayed as filled with fire and brimstone, hell can also be a cold, wet and very muddy ...

Poems by a Cumbrian soldier killed in action in the First World War have been saved and are being celebrated in a new book.

If I should die, think only this of me,” wrote English poet Rupert Brooke, in 1914. “That there’s some corner of a foreign ...

Though the “cease-fire,” called “Armistice,” was signed at 5:00am in the morning, it specified that 11:00am would be the hour ...

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Today (11 November) marks Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, which means a chance to stop and think about those ...

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - An imposing 19th Century building with elegant manicured lawns and sweeping views of the Edinburgh skyline seems an unlikely place to have earned the nickname "Dottyville" from ...

Years ago I attended the SCBWI children's writing conference held in downtown Los Angeles. I entered a poetry seminar, packed at standing-room only. Several layers of people pooled behind me, spilling ...

Last week, as commercials promoting a new Sting album showed us a much younger Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner singing, “I hope ...