The heroic cavalry charges of Napoleon's era gave way to the artillery barrage, the trench line, and the miles of barbed wire strung between France and Belgium from 1916 to 1918. The Great War ...

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.

Stichelbaut, of Ghent University in Belgium, is among a small group of archaeologists investigating those physical marks that remain from the Great ... World War manuals of how to dig a trench ...

One of the few, if not the only, picture of a "trench gun" in use overseas during ... or the brave men of the AEF who fought in the Great War. But it is time to illuminate the divide between ...

When I think about World War I, particularly the Western Front, I immediately think of trench warfare. And, indeed, that is a key component of how The Great War's battles play out. Each engagement ...

There are countless games that will let you run and gun at the Nazis, or try to outthink them on the battlefield, but the trench-based conflict of the so-called Great War is comparatively ...

But the book that stands above the rest is Fussell’s “The Great War and Modern Memory” (1975), a bristling history of trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I, as seen through ...

Released on 30 March, The Great War: Western Front turns players into generals, mixing grand strategy with the slog of the trenches. Responsible for everything from organising troops to launching ...

Which is to say – The Great War: Western Front does not hold your ... I was then able to breach the Imperial trenches and take over their occupancy piece-by-piece. If you know your WW1 history ...

He glances as far back as Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” (sixth century B.C.), but his main focus is the terrible 20th century. In “The Great War and Modern Memory” (1975), Paul Fussell ...