Behind Their Lines

Thiepval, Dead German Soldier, by Ernest Brooks © IWM Q 1284 Bertram Lloyd was a member of the Humanitarian League* and a conscientious...

Raised in Cambridge until she was 16, Margaret Postgate recalls the loveliness of spring in the university town: “you cannot be brought up ...

Red Cross, St. Louis October 1918 (National Archives) In September of 1918, a physician wrote from Camp Devens, Massachusetts, “It is o...

Parade to War, Allegory by John Steuart Curry, 1938 Few have heard of Lola Ridge, the modernist poet who has been compared to Emily Dic...

Poster © IWM Art.IWM PST 12052 On the night of January 19, 1915, the first German zeppelin attacks in England targeted cities and towns...

African American troops near Verdun 1918 (Library of Congress cph 3c16442)  John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” was one of t...