This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest day in British military history ...

In 2017, Kate Garraway listed Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong as her “all-time favourite” novel. The heartbreaking story, published in 1993, is the British author’s fourth, and is considered ...

At a vigil in France, the Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, saying “we lost the flower of a generation”. Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the ...

They were bitter enemies, seemingly destined to be perpetually at odds after fighting two devastating world wars less than 30 ...

Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.

In a short film and in conversation, the German filmmaker ponders the meaning of freedom, the complacency of peace and the new insecurity from Russia’s war and Donald Trump.

In fact, the average daily casualty rate across both sides in Normandy was ­6,870 – and that figure was higher than the Somme, Passchendaele and Verdun in the ­First World War, normally ...