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 ...

Piper Daniel Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross for his actions at The Battle of Loos, the largest British battle on the Western Front in 1915. He climbed from a trench and played Blue Bonnets Over ...

All Quiet on the Western Front was originally adapted into a movie ... soldier Paul Bäumer returns to his old school from the trenches, and asks a classroom full of students, “There are ...