When author Michael Morpurgo learned about the British Army’s practice of executing its own soldiers during the First World ...
Harry Potter star Emma Watson stepped out for the 2025 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game Feb. 14 amid her ongoing literature studies at Oxford University.
A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...
Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...
A WW1 war memorial honouring men from the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Carriage & Wagon Depot is to be displayed at Bury ...
At first a crusader for workplace safety, the trained physician railed against the use of the toxic and ubiquitous material ...
World War I or the Great War began in 1914 and ended in 1918. It was one of the largest … Continue reading "We Didn’t Realize ...
The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in ...
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.
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.
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 ...