A postcard discovered in the diary of a German World War ... bring a message sent to the trenches more than a century ago back to the family of a fallen British soldier. Lt Alexander Pfeifer ...
By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would be “all over by ...
The following day, having violated the neutrality of Luxembourg, the German ... work rate on trench maintenance. Following the Christmas Day ‘stand to’ at dawn, the soldiers resumed their ...
Like many myths, the original facts regarding the famous truce took lives of their own in the years following World War I.
An inmate facing 11 felony charges at the Robert Presley Detention Center was pronounced dead in his cell, the Riverside ...
The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert ... and a fair number of German soldiers had lived and worked in Britain before the war. Sometimes it seemed almost natural for ...
Lt Alexander Pfeifer found the postcard on Pte Percy Walsh, from Blackburn, Lancashire, after the 22-year-old was killed as German forces recaptured a trench ... it to the soldier's family ...