If the trenches were the defining combat element of the First World War, then surely air power was the defining element in ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

February has arrived with the realization that this coming September will see the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. It ...

The structures resemble the metal “X-like” anti-tank obstacles that were positioned along the Normandy beaches by Germans ...

President Donald Trump promised voters an administration that wouldn’t waste precious American lives and taxpayer treasure on far-off wars and nation building.

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

Lieutenant Edward Packe flew over the Western Front battlefield in a two-seater BE2c biplane at 7.30am on July 1, 1916. He was shot in the buttocks by a German fighter at 2,000ft.

When Ukrainian soldiers captured two North Korean prisoners of war last month, it provided the first undeniable proof of ...

But Laura Ingalls, who did 980 successive loops in hers, Aspy Engineer, the Indian schoolboy who won the Aga Khan Trophy and ...

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 ...

The Kingsway Exchange Tunnels were built in the 1940s to shelter Londoners from the Blitz bombing campaign during World War II. That was the last time they were open to the general public. Their next ...

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice. In public, he exudes optimism. He has pulled his country back from the ...