“Gas! Gas! Quick, boys ... do we see Wilfred Owen’s poetry as a defining image of World War One? A select group of well-educated soldier officers, including Wilfred Owen, came to view ...
The gas could affect someone in just a few minutes ... Blood was first stored successfully during World War One. Doctors could now give blood transfusions to soldiers. Before, soldiers with ...
How a WWII ace became the unlikely honoree of a submarine combat award The outcome was a grim introduction to modern warfare ...
This cross-curricular teaching package encourages learners to explore and reflect on the humanitarian impact of conflict. It has been over 100 years since the start of World War One (WWI). This series ...
In 2023, a Russian strike on a supermarket in the village of Hroza, in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, killed dozens of people. On Oct. 5, 1918, Germany's Hindenburg Line was broken as World War I ...
The ultimate horror of trench rats was suffered in WWI when the rodents fed off food, wastes and corpses, promoting disease ...
This book includes two chapters on the mutiny of the 5th because it encapsulates so clearly the ways World War I came to Southeast Asia. Indeed, two of its primary causes – German–Indian–Turkish ...
The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) have confirmed that the grave of a previously unknown soldier is that of ...
“They came here, they built the camp, they endured a horrible winter and summer; and then they trained for trench warfare, ...
After eight years in the making — and more than a century after the war's end — Washington D.C. will finally unveil its national tribute to WWI. Thirty-eight larger-than-life figures mounted ...
which commemorated local lives lost in the Great War. Working on the project made him realize that the WWI conflict was not adequately represented in DC. There were major memorials for World War II, ...