(See how World War I energized mapmaking at National Geographic.) Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National ...

We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

On every front—political, economic, technological, social, spiritual—World War I was changing Europe ... The very nature of trench warfare, moreover, proved diabolically conducive to facial ...

Claudius Schulze Remains of a trench today. Claudius Schulze Expedition ... be regarded as one of the great Allied failures of World War I. The name quickly became a metaphor for hubris—as ...