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 ...

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

When the First World War broke out in the summer of 1914 ... cease-fires between exhausted British and German soldiers in the trenches of Western Europe, the unauthorized truce spread along ...

I recently studied World War I in the Middle East through the book by Lawrence of Arabia, and then in East Africa through a ...

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 ...