THERE were at least 28 Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospitals set up in country homes in County Durham during the First World War to help soldiers injured in the frontline trenches to recuperate ... in a ...
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Historian Dan Snow helps Michael Douglas understand why trench warfare was so important in WW1. As Michael tries to cross a field, he realises how clear a target he is and how important it is to ...
WWI was one of the most catastrophic events in human history. But soldiers at the front lines who spent life in the trenches ...
The three Russians were hungry and thirsty. Averin Valeriy Vasilievich, a 52-year-old rifleman with the 153rd Tank Regiment, ...
The ultimate horror of trench rats was suffered in WWI when the rodents fed off food, wastes and corpses, promoting disease ...
A hospital trench on a farm has given archaeologists unprecedented insights into the aftermath of one of the most famous ...
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Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has reached a grim milestone — with the number of Ukrainians and Russians killed or wounded in the two-and-a-half war nearing one million. Roughly 80,000 ...
Policymakers in America and Europe repeatedly failed to address warnings about the sorry condition of the West’s munitions industry. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced ...