The Great War of 1914-18—the “war to end all wars” that was later demoted to being merely World War I—was so convoluted in its causes and confounding in its execution that it has proved a ...

On Nov. 30, 1917, 100 years ago in World War I, a large U.S. non-combat unit was the first such to engage the enemy. The 11th Engineer Regiment, 1,400 strong, composed of volunteer railway workers ...

“April is the cruelest month,” wrote American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot in his epic poem “The Waste Land,” published in 1922. In the Great War, the Battle of Seicheprey, fought on ...

World War I soldiers created underground art in the trenches. Trapped in beneath the ground by trench warfare, the soldiers of the Great War left their mark in subterranean works of art.

Shell Shock, now called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), was high in trenches. It was estimated that after the war there were 80,000 cases of shell shock.

The saying goes that “there are no atheists in foxholes.” The Knights of Columbus Museum in New Haven, which tells the history of that Catholic organization, seems an appropriate place … ...

Trench warfare was a critical component in European theatre of World War I. Here, British soldiers occupy a German trench in at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, France during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

Our The Great War: Western Front review takes a look at a WWI real-time strategy game that's perhaps too faithful to its subject matter to be entertaining.

The exhibit features 19 original maps from World War I depiciting the key role the trenches played in “the Great War.” The display includes other WWI military paraphernalia.

Ribollita in the Trenches: A Tuscan Soup Recipe from the Great War is a humble yet soul-warming dish inspired by the kind of meals that offered comfort during times of hardship. Born from the ...

Although WWI was known as the Great War, trench hygiene was anything but great. Soldiers in the trenches spent their time in unsanitary conditions among open latrines, others who went days without ...

Old trenches remain, and are a potential point of vulnerability, ... The Great War's tech tree exists on the command level, meaning your options will expand slowly as the years roll on.