Exploring the WWI battlefields of Normandy, France In this beautiful region, it’s hard to fathom the carnage that occurred at Somme more than 100 years ago. Dan Fellner.

The exhibition Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace: The Doughboys 1917 – 1918 opens on Friday at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Mo., and will be on view through Aug. 20, 2017 ...

For example, one of the most brutal battles of WWI was fought in Verdun, France. That trench warfare site is now 25,000 acres of regenerated forest that attracts more than a quarter-million ...

WWI shell craters surround Fort de Vaux, near Verdun, northeastern France, March 29, 2014. During the Battle of Verdun, the Germans captured Fort Vaux on June 7, 1916 which was recaptured by the ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most devastating battles in history, with over one million casualties in just five months. Intended to break the stalemate of trench warfare, the offensive ...

The battle, just south of the Baltic, was fought in the valley of the River Tollense in around 1250BC. “It appears to have been just the tip of a conflict iceberg which spread turmoil across ...

The site of the wildfire was where the Battles of the Isonzo, a series of 12 battles between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in WWI, took place. More than 200,000 people died there between ...

The soil of the battlefield coats their uniforms, fills their lungs, clogs their guns. ... Arlington Cemetery once held soil from the WWI battlefields of France. October 28, 2023.

(THE CONVERSATION) The horrors of war are all too familiar: lives lost, homes destroyed, entire communities forced to flee. Yet as time passes, places that once were sites of death and destruction ...