On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front - the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge...
Like Ypres, Arras was a front line town throughout the Great War. From March 1916 it became home to the British Army and it remained so until the Advance to Victory was well under way. ...
Following on from the success of the two films on Ypres (Slaughter of the Innocents and The Immortal Salient) The Walking the Western Front series turns its attention to the infamous Battl...
Walking The Western Front : Tank Battles and the Final Phase
Following on from the success of the two films on Ypres (Slaughter of the Innocents and The Immortal Salient) The Walking the Western Front series turns its a...
Following on from the success of the two films on Ypres (Slaughter of the Innocents and The Immortal Salient) The Walking the Western Front series turns its attention to th...
Following the declaration of war by the United States, more than 200 American men, unwilling to wait until US squadrons could be raised, volunteered to join the Royal Flying Co...
December 2011 saw the premier of Steven Spielberg's much anticipated film, "War Horse", which is the most popular piece of fiction ever written about horses in war. "My Ho...
Welsh at War : From Mons to Loos and the Gallipoli Tragedy
Welsh at War From Mons to Loos and the Gallipoli Tragedy is the culmination of twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the the Welsh men and inf...
The Battle for Mametz Wood is normally associated with the endeavours of the 38th Welsh Division and was the first of those great battles to secure possession of the woodlands of the Somme. The author...
Western Front 1914-1916 : Mons, La Cataeu, the Battle of The Somme
From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front i...
Wherever The Firing Line Extends : Ireland and the Western Front
The First World War was the biggest conflict in Irish history. More men served and more men died than in all the wars before or since that the Irish fough...
The best known of the Official War Artists sent to France, Orpen was the only one to publish an extensive memoir of his experiences and observations. He was a talented writer, and h...
With Winston Churchill At The Front : Winston in the Trenches 1916
Following his resignation from the Government after the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, Winston Churchill's political career stalled. Never one to give i...
Woodbine Willie was the affectionate nickname of the Reverend Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, an Anglican priest who volunteered as a chaplain on the Western Front during the ...
One of three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 issued to mark the centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the Western Front. Although fought over a relatively small area and...
Ypres Slaughter of th Innocents 1914-1915 is the first in a compelling new series to explore the battlefields of the Western Front during the First World War. For the first tim...
The Belgian town of Ypres is now synonymous with the tragedy of the First World War. The First and Second Battles of Ypres saw some of the bloodiest fighting during the early days of the war...
For many, the name of Ypres invokes some of our most poignant poetry, written by soldiers at the front line. Reminders of the horrors and heroism of a terrible war await the visito...
Zero Hour : 100 Years On Views from the Parapet of the Somme
The first day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, was the most devastating event of the First World War for the British army. In Zero Hour, 14 superlativ...
Zero Hour Z Day : XIII Corps Operations between Maricourt and Mametz
The popular perception of the 1st July 1916 is of infantry waiting for whistles to blow before scaling ladders, encumbered with heavy equipment, to ad...