The young German soldier has his rifle slung over his shoulder, a half-eaten sandwich in his left hand and a drinking cup in his right. As he steps to the refreshment window, a woman in a white ...

The German army's Military Research Institute was unable to shed more light on his military career. "In Germany such an event doesn't have the same kind of significance as it does in other ...

Many WWI battles took place between the French ... the French army was firing on German soldiers with heavy artillery. An artillery shell hit the entrance of the Winterberg tunnel on the Chemin ...

During the winter of 1917, Russian and German soldiers fighting in the dreary trenches of the Great War’s Eastern Front had a lot to fear: enemy bullets, trench foot, frostbite, countless ...

Above all we needed to bury the dead who were still lying in the field.' Another German soldier described the occasion as 'miraculous' as they waved at each other and exchanged gifts 'as if they ...

A proposal to add five new names - including three German soldiers - follows a similar move by the city's New College in 1930, Merton and Magdalen Colleges in 1994 and University College in 2018.

More than 110 years later, the German officer's great, great grandson Philipp Cross has returned it to the soldier's family, who had been unaware of its existence until now. The diary of Alexander ...