U.S. Navy and Marine combat engineers are testing how to make fortifications that can protect against tiny, deadly ...

What was life like in the trenches of World War I? Soldiers lived in narrow trenches dug into the ground. The conditions were horrible. Let's have a look.

In World War I, soldiers could not solve the trench rat problem. Instead, they killed rats for their sport. Trying to spike one on a bayonet became a form of entertainment.

The sight of trenches, endless mud and mass destruction — with just the stumps of trees emerging from a boggy, churned up landscape — is rightly associated with World War I. But in Ukraine ...

“The World War will end this morning at 6 o’clock.” In Paris local time, it was 11 a.m. Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Ebert, had proposed ending hostilities on the 11th hour of the 11th day of ...

Trenches have long protected troops from artillery and weaponry on the front lines, such as the devastating machine guns of World War I, though a direct hit from indirect fire can be catastrophic.

After years of preparation, the completed National World War I Memorial, featuring a 60-foot-long bronze relief sculpture dramatizing the horrors of war, will be unveiled this month in Washington ...

Practice trenches used by British soldiers before they went off to fight in France during the First World War have been discovered in a sun-scorched field amid Britain's ongoing drought.. The ...

The report was reminiscent of those from World War I, where the putrid pileup of waste and corpses allowed “trench rats” to breed rapidly.

In World War I, soldiers could not solve the trench rat problem. Instead, they killed rats for their sport. Trying to spike one on a bayonet became a form of entertainment.