British soldiers read a map in the trenches of the Western Front during World War One. The trenches were dug out of the mud of the battlefields and lined with wood and barbed wire. Watch this ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

The First World War is renowned for its massive Battles fought on an industrial scale, particularly the grinding stalemate that was the Western front. Places like Verdun, the Somme, and Passendale ...

Our nurses arrive in Egypt and soon realise that war is not quite the 'splendid adventure' they initially thought as they ...

World War One's deadliest weapon was not the machine gun or rifle, but artillery - responsible for around two-thirds of all casualties on the Western Front. High Explosive obliterated trenches and ...

A team of archaeologists has excavated the site of a World War One training camp in Bexhill ... which suffered devastating casualties on the Western Front on 30 June 1916 – known locally ...