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 ...

Warrior, famously called "the horse the Germans couldn't kill," became a symbol of courage and loyalty during World War I.

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 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’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 ...

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 ...

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.