How did WWI soldiers keep clean in the trenches? The answer lies somewhere between "with great difficulty" and "they didn't." Although WWI was known as the Great War, trench hygiene was anything but ...

but many soldiers during World War One couldn’t, and didn’t get the chance to go home. Pupils could write a timetable for their day then research and compare it to the daily schedule for a soldier ...

The three Russians were hungry and thirsty. Averin Valeriy Vasilievich, a 52-year-old rifleman with the 153rd Tank Regiment, ...

One of the little-discussed offensives of the First World War is the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. Taking place between ...

The ultimate horror of trench rats was suffered in WWI when the rodents fed off food, wastes and corpses, promoting disease ...

Britain went to war with Hitler's Germany on 3 1939. In History revisits people's recollections of that day and looks at the ...

Pinned by gravel and soil waist deep, the 24-year-old remained trapped in the 8-foot, 3-foot wide Los Feliz trench on ...

A construction worker was freed from an 8-foot-deep trench in Los Feliz on Thursday after a nearly six-hour rescue operation ...

One person died during a trench rescue operation at the Port of Houston, confirmed by Houston Fire Department.

Firefighters are trying to rescue a worker who is trapped in a trench in Los Feliz, according to the Los Angeles Fire ...

Hello, and welcome back to This Week in History! In several articles last year, I pushed against the limitations of this weekly 1,000-word adventure through historical events. I plan to do so ...

Irawati noticed the washing hanging out of the windows, the visibly underfed, rickets-ridden children playing in dirty ...