It was also the longest battle, lasting 300 days and leaving an estimated 800,000 soldiers dead, wounded or missing. At the end of the bloodshed, France emerged ... station. WW1: Why was the ...

With it is his handwritten letter which speaks for itself. He writes: "This crucifix came from a house in Rosieres, Somme, France in the British retirement of March 1918....We were fighting on the ...

At a vigil in France, the Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, saying “we lost the flower of a generation”. Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France ... in the snow. (Photo: U.S. Army) Seventy years after the end of WWII's Battle of the Bulge ...

After the Polish army was forced to sign the capitulation act on 6 th October 1939, they fled via Romania to France and from there, when France surrendered to the ... armies that had destroyed Poland ...

In this image by Irish landscape photographer Michael St. Maur Sheil at the site of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, you can trace grass-covered trenches and pockmarks from exploded ...