This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War ... reports from censors and other contemporary official sources and diaries ...

More than 110 years later, the German officer's great, great grandson Philipp Cross has returned it to the soldier's family, who had been unaware of its existence until now. The diary of Alexander ...

An American soldier, he died on November 11, 1918 at 10.59am, just one minute before the Armistice was to take effect. Gunther, who was of German-American ... risk of life in combat with an ...

Dan Snow describes the food rations supplied for British soldiers during WW1 and compares these with what German soldiers had. The value of different foods is touched on and we learn that ...

In woods on a ridge not far from the city of Reims, the bodies of more than 270 German soldiers have lain for more than a century - after they died the most agonising deaths imaginable.