Behind Their Lines

Francis Ledwidge was an Irish nationalist who joined the British Army in October of 1914 to defend Ireland and further the cause of Iri...

Attack through No Man's Land In the First World War, the most frequent cause of death was from artillery missiles aimed and fired f...

On the Cliffs (1917), Dame Laura Knight By the time the First World War ended in November of 1918, an estimated 80,000 men serving in...

Image from The Somme, 1916 film “ Oh that awful journey. The dead and the dying, lying, crawling along the ground…My God! dear God!” ...

Edward Brittain, Roland Leighton, and Victor Richardson  via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/...

WWI postcard: Douglas Tempest (British) The First World War’s popular song, “Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag,” may have been ...

French soldier near Verdun, 1916 Napoleon Bonaparte is viewed as one of the greatest military commanders in French history.   Rising to...