On December 24, 1914, in the midst of the unrelenting violence of World War I, a cease-fire suddenly swept across areas of ...

German defensive trenches at Bullecourt, France, World War One. These trenches became known ... Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. In the east, the Russian Army was able to mobilise ...

Captured German trench spades and trench pumps on display at the Allied War Exposition in Waco, Texas, in 1918. Title from handwritten note on photograph. The Allied War Exposition was a World War I ...

He said it was one of only a handful that gives the experience of life in World War One's trenches from a German perspective. He added that he believes the diary was "a form of therapy" for his ...

By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would be “all over by ...

A postcard discovered in the diary of a German World War One officer has led his descendant to bring a message sent to the trenches more than a century ago back to the family of a fallen British ...

A series of hand-painted postcards sent from the trenches reveal one German soldier's intimate view of World War One. Art student Otto Schubert (1892-1970) was 22 years old when he was drafted ...

(See how World War I energized mapmaking at National Geographic.) Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National ...

On Christmas day, German soldiers emerged from their muddy hell holes waving their arms, showing the Allied Forces that they ...

CHAMPAGNE, France (Reuters) - Soldiers scramble through trenches under a ... where French and German armies once hammered each other during World War 1. The initiative is part of a European ...