A French environmental group has found artillery shells dating back to World Wars I and II and even the Franco-Prussian war ...

A journalist and explorer documents life on the frontlines as war consumes everyday life for French society ... An American WWI soldier writes a letter while encased in a trench.

The exhausted British and French gave ground but finally managed ... again defense in depth, a wide band of artillery implacements." Unaware of what his men were stepping into, General Pershing ...

111 Reserve Infantry regiment A German wartime map shows the tunnel just outside Craonne On 4 May 1917 the French launched an artillery bombardment targeting the two ends of the tunnel ...

Doctors in France have had to remove a World War I bomb from the rectum of an 88-year-old man, French outlet Var-Matin ... after a man told doctors that a World War II anti-tank shell was lodged ...

In a similar vein is the French 75, which got its name from World ... the cannon revolutionized the nature of artillery. The ...

In the battlefield conditions of WW1 this meant an average of 500 rounds ... real threat to soldiers in the trenches was the brutal artillery bombardments: "Artillery was the killer; artillery ...

Belleau Wood - a bloody encounter of WW1 - occupies a special place in the ... American battlefields yes, but also ones associated with British, French, Canadian, Australian or New Zealand troops.

By late 1917, Germany had knocked Russia out of the war and seemed likely to swarm the sole Western front and finish off the exhausted British and French ... more lethal World War II (an estimated ...

Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system almost didn't get built because some IDF brass feared it would instill a defensive ...

German and French armies were wounded or killed. General Haig, the senior British officer, planned to destroy the German defences with an intense seven day artillery bombardment and by detonating ...

The apparently pristine Gerardmer lake in the Vosges mountains of eastern France conceals a bleak legacy of 20th-century ...