Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous ... simultaneously after they had been placed at the end of long tunnels under the German front lines.

APRIL 1915 saw two of the bloodiest battles of the First World War and by the end of that month fifteen men from the Athy ...

A new addition to Oxford’s “Great Battles” series, Ypres is not a detailed account of the several ... The next two chapters cover the years from the end of WWI through the end of the Second World War.

Britain's last survivor of WWI kept the true horrors of the trenches to himself until a few days before he died ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on ... movements of both sides and view the battles of Ypres, Verdun and the Somme in more detail.

British casualties at the battles of Ypres were 420,000 ... cathedral was begun in 1221 and was completely destroyed during WWI and is now rebuilt to the original plans - it also contains ...

Cassar then, plunges into the battle with a long chapter on the early days of the fighting around Ypres. He then devotes a chapter to the German introduction of poison gas to the Western Front. There ...

The First Battle of Ypres - one of five - the previous October ... Much of the aid from the West has focussed on delivering high-end weapons that can be used to precisely target Russian logistics ...