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 ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

(See how World War I energized mapmaking at National Geographic.) Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National ...

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 ...

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.

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...

as well as sound recordings from 1924 Ellen Wexler After official attempts at a World War I truce failed, soldiers in the trenches of the Western Front took it upon themselves to share in the ...

The National World War I Museum is arranged in narrative form, as if WWI soldiers were telling visitors their own war stories through the exhibits. The museum features replicas of trenches ...

watching the slow build-up to war and then its sudden rippling explosions as combat broke out; the brutal, violent--and sometimes darkly humorous--reality of life in the trenches; the savage peace ...

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.