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 ...

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 ...

Alasdair Campbell is proud to be playing pipes his great-grandfather carried into battle in World War One After piper Malcolm Campbell was shot and left for dead during World War One, he credited ...