Based on events during World War I, the musical centers on German and Allied soldiers along the Western Front who engage in a ...
The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would ...
The Indian Army fought in every major theatre of operations during World War One. Letters home from Indian soldiers on the Western Front offer extraordinary insights into their feelings about the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. This article is more than 4 years old. The Western Front, ...
On Christmas Eve 1914, the brutal war that gripped Europe halted spontaneously, with both sets of soldiers observing a small window of peace. More than 100,000 soldiers on the battlefields of Belgium ...
All along the Western Front of the First World War, which stretched for some 700 km from the North Sea to the Franco-Swiss border, a series of 139 funerary and memorial sites bear witness to the ...