An elderly couple in France was walking through a field when they stumbled upon a carrier pigeon capsule that contained a ...

A British soldier’s battered World War I diary recounting the bloody battle of the Somme has been discovered in a U.K. barn.

Russia's army has struggled to translate its vast superiority in both manpower and weapons into significant battlefield gains ...

A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest day in British military history with more than 19,000 British ...

Coming at the mid-point of World War I, the Battle of the Somme is often taken to exemplify the stupidity of the war on the western front.

Royal British Legion also marks its 100th anniversary in Ireland, dedicated to ensuring legacy of ‘those who served’ ...

A World War One rifleman's harrowing pocket diary details the solemn reality of life fighting on the frontline. Rifleman Timothy Elliott went over the top with the 9th Battalion City of London ...

That attack 100 years ago was the long-awaited “Big Push”—the beginning of the Somme Offensive and the quest to crack open the Western Front of World War I.

The Somme offensive, lasting from July 1, 1916–November 18, 1916 was the Allies’ replay of the Battle of Verdun, a failed attempt to use attrition to exhaust the German Army and end the war.

Europe’s Landscape Is Still Scarred by World War I Photographs of the abandoned battlefields reveal the trenches’ scars still run deep ...

Steven Trout, The Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010), 2, 6; David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War ...

Harrowing pocket diary from rifleman in World War I who survived the Somme shows solemn reality of those killed in the conflict Timothy Elliott meticulously filled in his diary during the war from ...