During the recovery of bodies following the Battle of Marne in France in 1914, his pipes were accidentally set off, alerting ...
The Battle of the Somme was one of the most devastating battles in history, with over one million casualties in just five months. Intended to break the stalemate of trench warfare, the offensive ...
Verdun was one of the most savagely fought battles of World War One. The Germans fired two million shells in the opening eight-hour bombardment, and tens of millions were fired over the course of ...
He was barely 17 years old and he lied about his age. He had his baptism of fire at the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916. The British prepared for the battle with a massive bombardment of ...
His efforts even achieved him some notoriety back home. As biographer Kenneth Ray Young noted, after a victorious battle in February, "newspaper headlines in the United States proclaimed that in ...
Why? Nearly all of them failed because they focused on winning their battles, but in the process they lost their wars. So how can you win your wars? Editor's Note: This is the fourth in an occasional ...