1916 The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodies encounters of WW1. Find out about the role played by Scottish soldiers. World War One: the war at sea During World War One, the sea became a ...

ANTHONY BATTERSBY: He ran away from home just after the outbreak of the war, because his mother ... On July 1st 1916, the first day of the battle of the Somme, 20,000 British soldiers died under ...

Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...

Russian and German troops on the Eastern Front of World War I were not only fighting each other, they were also trying to ...

Takamatsu Gushiken, a "gamafuya," an Okinawa dialect meaning a person who digs in a cave, searches in a cave for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of the ...

80 years ago, American and Japanese troops were locked in one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre in World War II: the Battle of Iwo Jima. The small island between the ...

Artist Lindsey Kirk’s latest exhibition brings New Zealand’s wartime history to life — not through uniforms and medals, but ...

He carefully places them in a ceramic rice bowl and takes a moment to imagine people dying 80 years ago as they hid in this cave during one of the fiercest battles of World War II. His hope is ...

Michael Morpurgo’s  trailblazing novel “War Horse” gallops on to the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre stage this week, a part of ...

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet on March 21, 2006, giving rise to one of the most popular social media ...