Here, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War—which began a ... spent years getting to know. His images bring to light the subterranean world soldiers endured while sheltering from ...

Henri Barbusse, 1916 The French soldier ... statement in the British War Propaganda Section of the Morning Post, a London-based daily newspaper, on June 22. 9. "The First World War was a ...

Adrian Carton de Wiart first saw ... to carry wounded British soldiers back to their trenches after an attack near Ginchy, France, during the Battle of the Somme during World War I in 1916.

Most of the 9.7 million soldiers who perished in WWI were killed by the conflict's unprecedented firepower. Many survivors experienced acute trauma. Hulton Archive / Getty Images In September 1914 ...

The previously unmarked grave of a British soldier who fell fighting for his country in the First World War has been identified more than a century after his death. Lance Corporal George ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916 ...

The Battle of the Somme is one of the largest and bloodiest conflicts of World War One. Nearly 20,000 British soldiers die on the first day. It is part of a massive joint offensive by the Allies ...