Spontaneously and without official sanction, troops on both sides observed a series of ceasefires, setting aside their weapons and exchanging gifts and souvenirs in no man’s land. Joint burials ...

When detectives from Taskforce Echo conducted a search of a known criminal's address in 2021, the last thing they expected to find were weapons of historical significance dated at over 100 years old.

The statue commemorating Gabrielle Petit, the young Belgian woman who spied on the German military during World War I and was executed in 1916, stands on Place Saint-Jean, in the heart of Brussels’ ...

All too often, history books have overlooked the contributions of black and ethnic minority individuals to the British war effort. Times are thankfully changing, and in the 21st century, more measures ...

2. Machine guns Before WW1, the most popular automatic rapid-fire weapon was the Gatling gun, which resembled a cannon and weighed about as much, limiting its use in 20th-century warfare. Produced by ...