Behind Their Lines

“ Although a citizen of the United States, the black man is regarded by the white American as an inferior being with whom relations of b...

La Guerre, Henri Rousseau (1894), Musee d'Orsay And so, then, for all in time of war, here are the cockerels, clamouring defian...

RMS Alcantara,  former ocean liner, sunk in combat 1916 Charles Edward Dixon While images of the First World War are inextricably link...

British soldiers at the Somme, Oct. 1916 © IWM (Q 1580) Historian Paul Fussell, writing in The Great War and Modern Memory, describ...

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...