Belleau Wood - a bloody encounter of WW1 - occupies a special place in the annals of American military history, an early and vital display of American capability on the battlefield. As with most ...

Togo in Africa saw the first battle between Allied and German forces in World War One. They fought for control of the Kamina wireless station. WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?

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 ...

Other Western European countries have preserved World War I and World War II battlefields. For example, one of the most brutal battles of WWI was fought in Verdun, France. That trench warfare site ...

Photography was extremely popular in the US at the time, and many photographers did not hold back from snapping even the most graphic of post-battle images to illustrate the horrors of war.