World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war ...

War and hygiene rarely share the same sentence. For soldiers locked in the trenches of World War I, survival mattered far more than smelling clean or keeping a neatly trimmed beard. Shells fell, mud ...

Before the great Carl Giles was employed to entertain and delight readers with his cartoons in the Daily Express, his predecessor at the paper had been just as prodigious in the years preceding him.