Chancellor Angela Merkel has praised Belgium and the EU yesterday (28 October) at a ceremony commemorating the First Battle of Ypres. German troops marched into Belgium 100 years ago, during the first ...

Robert Cowley’s "The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War" is an ambitious and meticulously crafted study of the opening months of the First World War.

A new addition to Oxford’s “Great Battles” series, Ypres is not a detailed account of the several protracted battles for that famed Belgian city. Rather, it is an exploration of the evolution of “the ...

A new era is born.

An invigorating blend of fact and fiction, written around and featuring the real life interview of Edgar Huggins a veteran of both the 1st Battle of Ypres and 2nd Battle of the Somme and the last ...