Ukrainian troops train for trench warfare near France's WWI battlefields
Around 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers are training in France's eastern Marne region, where German and French armies battled each other during World War I.
Ukrainian troops train for trench warfare near France's WW1 battlefields
The scene could be 3,000 km (1,860 miles) away in Ukraine's Donbas region, but instead some 2,000 Ukrainian conscripts and ...
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Families of Nazi SS hostages held as bargaining chips in WWII say lessons from the war still resonate
German army soldiers not wanting to end up as criminals of war wrested the political prisoners from the SS and took them to ...
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Sandston's inception owed to a World War I munitions factory
Many of the areas surrounding Richmond owe their beginnings to periods during the Civil War and earlier. Sandston’s birth and ...
#TheMoment a Canadian cycled 1,000 km along the WWI front lines
Stephanie Yuill recounts the five weeks she spent cycling 1,000 kilometres though the Western Front Way, which follows the ...
One question made me change the way I think about history
He had rightly begun to question whether the tins of bully beef I was talking about would have been suitable for him. I ...
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Letters from the trenches: Niagara Falls soldier’s missives to his sister reflect war’s emotional toll
Several years ago, while helping to empty his grandfather’s house on Zimmerman Avenue, Dr. Ronald McGarry came across a small ...