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 ...

We travelled to the Western Front on the northern border of France ... It was the deadliest day in the history of the British army. As the battle went on, new tactics were developed that helped ...

The Darkest Hour on the Western Front (2009); and 1918: A Very British Victory (2008). This story was originally published in the January 2015 issue of Military History.

But of course, the mutual suicide pact of the Western powers in World War should be bleak. If you have the stomach, I highly recommend it.

Courtesy of the Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage ... serving at a British Army base hospital near the Western Front in 1918, had been running between wards of wounded ...