Near Le Barque, France. View of a support trench in the Maze. This spot marked the position of a German 'pineapple' bomb. In the foreground, smoking a cigarette and wearing trench waders, is 1365 ...

Put yourself in the shoes of a soldier in the trenches in the First World War, or imagine waking up on a sunny morning in Pompeii hours before annihilation. That is the experience that hundreds of ...

World War I beyond the Trenches: Stories from the Front features the stories of 122,000 Wisconsin men and women served on land, sea, and in the air during World War I.

He enlisted in the 1st Battalion and sailed for Egypt in October 1914. He took part in the Gallipoli landing ... As Turkish bombs landed in his trench, Keysor would smother the explosions with ...

A history museum is set to screen a documentary about one of the first attacks of World War I on British soil. Malton-based Eden Camp will screen 'The Baby Killers: The 1914 Bombardment of Hartlepool, ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

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 no ...

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It was very difficult to walk about, because the ground was so broken up with the holes made by the shells… The communication trenches no longer existed.” On the other side Karl von Wiegand ...