Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 3 Jan) is 1917, the three-time Oscar-winning war film from co-writer and director Sam ...

Back in 2020, Sir Sam Mendes released his World War 1 epic 1917 in the UK. The Oscar-winning movie, nominated for 10 Academy Awards, follows two British soldiers (led by George MacKay) on a mission to ...

NATO's strategy is sound but its allies lack the arsenals and manufacturing needed to carry it out in a long war, a new ...

TONY COLLINS explains the deliberately obscured reality of what happened when soldiers on the Western Front famously fraternised in a spirit of unity amid horror of the Great War ...

Major Marmaduke Walkington’s medals, from his participation in the 1914 Christmas Truce, sold for £2,100 at auction, three ...

The victory at Vimy Ridge is often seen as a great turning point in Canadian history. It fostered a sense of national pride ...

Timber is readily available and economical, but the increase in size and material use reflects operational experience. During the Second World War, the depth, and width of the trenches were 1.5 meters ...

and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold a news conference in Vienna in 2015 amid frustrated efforts to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war. Brendan Smialowski/Reuters A woman ...

With Remembrance Day this month, our historian salutes the bravery of Norfolk First World War Victoria Cross recipients Harry Cator, Sidney Day ...

As a war criminal he was a legitimate target and ... in samples collected in trenches in the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine. The substances appear to have been delivered either by ...

Practice trenches in Gosport believed to be perfect examples of those used in the First World War have been given heritage status. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can get ...

Inflation soared and GDP shrank by a third (see chart 1). The return of macroeconomic stability allowed the government and firms to war-proof their operations. One priority was to protect ...