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 no ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Mazargues War Cemetery in Marseille on ...

By the end of 1914 the German advance had stalled ... The bayonets of World War I soldiers stick out of the trenches as they carefully watch for the enemy. National Geographic Beneath his potato ...

The best analysis of the dishonest vicious crap convulsing our nation was written by Paul Fussell, in “The Great War and ...

I quite like playing in the mud. But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the Western Front.

I quite like playing in the mud. But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the Western Front.

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

The bodies of five British soldiers killed in the First World War have been found in a network of trenches at Ypres, Belgium. More than 80 years after their deaths, archaeologists discovered the ...

By 1914, the Ottoman Empire was already ... Trenches are long, deep ditches used for defence. Soldiers would stay in the trenches, often for weeks at a time, to protect themselves from machine ...