British soldiers read a map in the trenches of the Western Front during World War One. The trenches were dug out of the mud of the battlefields and lined with wood and barbed wire. Watch this ...

and an extensive network of trenches stretched from the North Sea coast to the Swiss border. An arms race led to the first mass use of poison gas, air warfare, and tanks. On the western front ...

For good reason Erich Maria Remarque’s masterwork “All Quiet on the Western Front” is routinely tagged the most important war novel ever written. At the time of its full-length publication ...

But the book that stands above the rest is Fussell’s “The Great War and Modern Memory” (1975), a bristling history of trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I, as seen through ...

More ink has been spilled in recent weeks over who has been jilted in multilateral talks than about the actual situation in the trenches on the Ukraine front. Having just returned from there ...

The significance of “All Quiet on the Western Front” has not a thing ... But for the men at the front, on to what? “Trench, hospital, mass grave—there are no other options.” ...