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 ...

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

For good reason Erich Maria Remarque’s masterwork “All Quiet on the Western Front” is routinely tagged the most important war novel ever written. At the time of its full-length publication ...

World War One's deadliest weapon was not the machine gun or rifle, but artillery - responsible for around two-thirds of all casualties on the Western Front. High Explosive obliterated trenches and ...

For good reason Erich Maria Remarque’s masterwork “All Quiet on the Western Front” is routinely tagged the most important war novel ever written. At the time of its full-length publication ...