Trenches were dug by the soldiers in three different ways. The first way, the easiest and fastest, was called “entrenching.” It was dug straight into the ground from the top, but it left the soldiers ...

On a frosty, starlit night, a miracle took place. In 1914, a melody drifted over the darkness of No Man's Land. First "O, Holy Night," then "God Save the King." Peeking over their trenches for what ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The World War I soldier endured bitter cold, poison gas, enemy snipers and a grueling fight from the trenches. The U.S. joined the Allies in 1917, making this year a big one for the ...

Dirty and discouraged, 44 men were marched out of the Trujillo jail one day last week at 5:30 a.m. Not far away they entered a line of badly constructed trenches which they had dug just a month ago in ...

Quiet Cornish cliff tops were punctured with the sound of gunshots as the landscape was transformed into World War One trenches. Children and adults took on the identities of soldiers for the ...