Nazi Germany launched a massive surprise offensive through the Ardennes, aiming to split the Allied forces and turn the tide of the war. Initially, the attack gained ground, but logistical failures, ...

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 ...

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.

July 1, 1916—the first day of the Battle of the Somme became the bloodiest day in British military history. Over 57,000 soldiers were lost in mere hours, in a battle that was both a disaster and a ...

James Alexander Mann, who was an aspiring writer and actor from Edinburgh, died just five days after his 21st birthday after ...

Thanks to two British researchers, my family recently uncovered the incredible history of William Bleakley and how he played ...

On the 30th anniversary of Sebastian Faulks’s bestseller Birdsong a touring production comes to Alexandra Palace Theatre next month ...

Italy's defense policy amid the Ukraine war: navigating technological advancements, shifting paradigms, and strategic uncertainty.

People are being invited to walk 100 kilometres in the footsteps of soldiers to raise money for the Army Benevolent Fund.

One of the most famous images from the First World War is this picture of British soldiers from the Battle of the Somme in ...