The Chemin des Dames is a ridge road in northern France that was the site of several major battles during World War I, most ...

There is little to celebrate in this moment, captured in “2000 Meters to Andriivka” – one of two new documentaries at the Sundance film festival that chronicle the appalling impact of the conflict, ...

from frontline trenches to faraway Russian schools. The newly reclaimed village of Andriivka is a single street of bullet-pocked rubble. It will soon return to Russian hands. And, as devastating ...

A smaller team of four soldiers then advanced to clear the Russian dugouts. Video footage from a chest camera shows Ukrainian soldiers advancing through trench lines, throwing grenades, and firing ...

Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in Cape Town after going unrecognised for more than a century. The 1,772 ...

The guillotine’s story in France had begun just a few years prior. In late 1789, during a discussion about reforming the French penal code, physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposed a standard ...