The First World War was “one of the seminal moments of the twentieth century in which literate soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems”, writes ...

When Pte Frank Evans was killed on a World War One battlefield ... In 1919, on the anniversary on his death, Hannah Evans wrote a poem to her hometown newspaper, the Wrexham Advertiser, asking ...

The First World War saw an outburst of poetic ... Seeger joined the French Foreign Legion to take part in the war, to have, he wrote in one of his poems, “the rare joy of dying well." ...

In the corner of Potter’s Field at Pine Grove cemetery, there is a tombstone that is for the Unknown Soldier. One of the ...

When a Youngstown councilman proposed changing the name of Hadnet Drive, descendants of George F. Hadnett decided it was time for people to be reacquainted with the World War I hero. The original name ...

World War One, also known as the Great War, claimed the lives of more than nine million soldiers. Spain, in the economic doldrums after losing most of its colonies, remained neutral, while the ...

We often associate war poetry with the First World War's soldier poets ... Since writing the line "No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark", Shire has become one of the most ...

The nation's World War I memorial, sculpted and cast in Englewood, is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024.