Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.
Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit ...
World War I or the Great War began in 1914 and ended in 1918. It was one of the largest … Continue reading "We Didn’t Realize ...
Warrior, famously called "the horse the Germans couldn't kill," became a symbol of courage and loyalty during World War I.
At West Point I learned that technology forces warfare to evolve. The reason soldiers today no longer ride horses into battle, use bows and arrows, and wield spears, is because of the gun. The ...
Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.
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 ...
History is filled with wars, that’s just a natural part of the human condition. It is in the annals of history that we find ...
The team’s thermal sights, along with the laptop tablet that gives early warning of incoming missiles, are all that separates ...
There Second battle of the Piavealso nicknamed “battle of the solstice” From Gabile d’Annunzio, he was fought Between 15 and ...