If World War I is synonymous with one thing it is trenches. On the Western Front alone the trench line stretched nearly 500 miles from the shores of the North Sea in Belgium to neutral Switzerland to ...

ISTANBUL – The World War I battlefield of the Gallipoli campaign, where throngs gather each April to remember the fallen, is a place of lore, an echo of ancient warfare that took place on the same ...

A woman inherits a map of a World War I battlefield in France from her grandfather, an engineer under General Pershing. The map is of St. Mihiel, a little-known but key battle in which U.S. forces ...

Excerpted from The Curious Map Book by Ashley Baynton-Williams. Out now from the University of Chicago Press. When the first world war started in 1914, most commentators thought that the war would be ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - An exhibit about World War I trench maps has opened at the S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum. The State newspaper reported (https://bit.ly/1FrgYZ9) that 19 original ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. In the 1910s, promoters of the ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Lismore. Followed categories will be added to My News. Called Mapping Our Anzacs, the National Archives site allows visitors to see the numbers of men who enlisted ...