Few battles better epitomize the horror and futility of war than the Battle of the Somme as Canadian soldier Frank Maheux ...

Few games truly captured the impact and importance of the first World War, but these titles managed to do the oft-forgotten ...

By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would be “all over by Christmas,” then it was clear they had been cruelly mistaken. With the ...

The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench ... across no man’s land, and there were even rumors of informal shooting contests at impromptu targets displayed in each other’s trenches.

Sworn enemies crept out into No Man's Land to ... savage warfare recommenced, but the impromptu display of humanity has endured as one of the most bittersweet episodes of WWI.

At certain points along the eastern and western fronts, the soldiers of Russia, France, and Britain even heard brass bands joining the Germans in their joyous singing.At the first light of dawn, many ...

“In the trenches, there are no holidays,” one man said. By Marc Santora and Liubov Sholudko Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine Air-raid alarms and explosions sounded on Christmas Day in Ukraine as ...

One hundred and ten years ago, during what was to become the bloodiest conflict the world had seen to that point, the fighting stopped for Christmas. It wasn’t planned, but on the evening of December ...

These movements must become instinctive, requiring repetitive drills.” The trenches at the RMT base, constructed last autumn, are a training ground for situations where urban and woodland warfare ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 marked the return of high-intensity warfare in Europe. Now, almost three years later and with the conflict showing no signs of abating, France is gearing ...