Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

and an extensive network of trenches stretched from the North Sea coast to the Swiss border. An arms race led to the first mass use of poison gas, air warfare, and tanks. On the western front ...

I’ll go on.” But for the men at the front, on to what? “Trench, hospital, mass grave—there are no other options.” World War I was only partly homicide; the rest was forced suicide. These were men “at ...

When we turn attention to World War I and its fighting, our thoughts go to the Western Front, to trenches and barbed wire and ...

I recently studied World War I in the Middle East through the book by Lawrence of Arabia, and then in East Africa through a ...

When we think of World War One we ... to trench magazines reveal how soldiers also used humour and anti-German feeling to cope with the conflict. Much poetry written on the front line, such ...