Behind Their Lines

Streatley Mill at Sunset, 1859 George Price Boyce Summer: the season of fireflies, porch swings, day lilies, and beach strolls.  And y...

Frederic Manning It began in August of 1914 and was supposed to be over by Christmas of that year, but the Great War proved to be cruell...

Recruiting Poster, © IWM (Art.IWM PST 2763) One of the common myths of the First World War is that nearly all women were strong supporte...

Theipval 1917, William Orpen ©Imperial War Museum ART2377 War statistics can seem numbingly abstract: what does it mean that an esti...

London Cemetery and High Wood The Bois des Foureaux, known to the British as “High Wood,” was the scene of a months-long struggle...

A Howitzer in Action, William Orpen © IWM (Art.IWM ART 2957) A wall of sound. A deafening roar. A ceaseless rain of shells. These w...