An American WWI soldier writes a letter while encased ... and our first blood sacrifice was made in the frontline trenches in France. There are many French towns that we will know better before ...

In fact, the soft chalk and limestone bedrock of France ... By the end of 1914 the German advance had stalled, the armies had dug in, and an extensive network of trenches stretched from the ...

We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across ...

That's why the events that occurred on Christmas 1914 were so shocking. The Western Front stretched throughout northeastern France ... a soccer ball from their trenches, and pretty soon a lively ...

Trenches became valuable to WW1 armies because they were a defensive ... there are reminders of No Man’s Land. Zone Rouge in France, for example, is littered with unexploded shells and bombs ...

Family members say that my great-grandfather spoke of serving in the trenches and witnessed friends being killed. He was shot in the elbow during his time in France, leaving him with a life-long ...

On the opposing side were the Allied powers: Britain, France ... WWI saw massive levels of destruction. More than 16 million people died during the war. One reason for the massive casualties was ...