"The Killing Season" reframes how we understand 1914, not as an inevitable slide into stalemate, but as a season of decisive ...
Dominic and Tom discuss the terrible Battle of Ypres ...
In the autumn of 1914, Ypres was the only Belgian province which Germany did not hold, writes Father. One soldier noted “there is not a single half-acre in Ypres that is not ...
On July 31st, 1917, the fields of Flanders became the setting for one of World War I’s most infamous and nightmarish battles: the Third Battle of Ypres. The Battle of Ypres is more often remembered ...
The men both died in 1915 during the battle for Hill 60 near Ypres in Belgium, and were buried as unknown officers of the ...
As the United Kingdom — and British expats in Spain — prepare to honour fallen servicemen and women this Remembrance Day, two young British officers who died more than a century ago in Belgium have ...
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses, row on row ..." So begins the poem "In Flanders Fields" written by Lt. Col. John McCrae, a Canadian soldier and physician, after he witnessed ...