British soldiers read a map in the trenches of the Western Front during World War One. The trenches were dug out of the mud of the battlefields and lined with wood and barbed wire. Watch this ...
and an extensive network of trenches stretched from the North Sea coast to the Swiss border. An arms race led to the first mass use of poison gas, air warfare, and tanks. On the western front ...
A unique part of Yorkshire's World War One heritage in Belgium has become the focus of a new fundraising campaign. The Yorkshire Trench, near Ypres, was built and occupied in 1915 by soldiers from ...
World War One's great Western writers - from ... becoming the oldest soldier in the British trenches on the western front. But he was still young at heart. An indefatigable socialite, Singh ...
Practice trenches in Gosport believed to be perfect examples of those used in the First World War have been given ... to mimic sections of the Western Front, with at least two phases of trench ...
Aerial view of a practice trench from the south-east, with figures digitally superimposed to show its line Credit: Historic England/PA Practice trenches from the First World War are among the ...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 marked the return of high-intensity warfare ... flying over the trenches – tactics that have become a common sight on the Ukrainian front.