Behind Their Lines

Village of Festubert, Photo Visa Paris One hundred years ago, soldier-poet Edmund Blunden visited what remained of the village of Festub...

  In spring, a young man’s fancies turn to…thoughts of war.  In the First World War, spring offensives demanded more men and fresh troops....

TP Cameron Wilson Theodore Percival Cameron Wilson, who preferred to be called “Jim,” was a writer, teacher, and son of a clergyman...

On April 24 th , Easter Monday of 1916, Irish republicans wishing to end British rule in Ireland used armed force to overtake strateg...

In April of 1916, at the same time that the fight for Verdun was being waged on the Western Front, an advertisement in London papers urge...

Vernede's home, The Paper Mill in Standon Nearly all of the poems of the First World War that have been preserved in the literary ca...