Explore the history of the Princess Mary Christmas gift box, a brass or silver tin containing gifts intended for all members of the armed forces of the British Empire on Christmas Day 1914 during ...

But, painted between 1914 and 1918, it's also something more personal and critical: an allegory for the misery and bondage of World War One ... that speaks to life's transience, and acquires ...

But, painted between 1914 and 1918, it's also something more personal and critical: an allegory for the misery and bondage of World War One ... "Art is eternal, but life is short," she wrote ...

Dar es Salaam. Six key World War 1 battles were fought on African soil, according to the History Channel; two of those were fought in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) between British and German forces.

Baffle walls were erected outside windows, trenches were ... Between World War II and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Calcutta had been through regular wailing of sirens as part of a war or ...

Those trenches were curiosities, places to play. The gravity didn’t strike me then, but it was clear New Delhi wasn’t beyond ...

Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone’s short book is, yes – because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like ...

When the First World War broke out ... could to the relative safety of the British trenches. A bullet from an enemy sniper instantly killed one of the rescued soldiers, but it did little to ...

This year on May 9, millions of people in the countries of former Soviet Union commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

Solanco High School took students out of the classroom and put them in the trenches for ... hard to bring history to life through just textbooks. So, the more real-world experience they get, ...