Behind Their Lines

Over one-hundred years ago, on December 23 rd , 1914, the British weekly periodical  Punch  published a Christmas poem for a nation at wa...

German Christmas card, 1915 What does the holy season of Christmas have to do with war? Egbert Sandford’s poem “At Bethlehem—1915” re-...

British Christmas card, 1918 Christmas has always been a time for dreams, whether of angelic hosts, sugar plums, or a softly drift...

“The Tommy is a singing soldier,” wrote Patrick MacGill in the Preface to his 1917 volume of poetry, Soldier Songs. An Irishman serving...

Shot at Dawn Memorial, Staffordshire UK Photo by Dave Green.jpg Shot at Dawn: in the First World War, 306 men who fought with the Brit...