On July 31st, 1917, the fields of Flanders became the setting for one of World War I’s most infamous and nightmarish battles: the Third Battle of Ypres. The Battle of Ypres is more often remembered ...

In October and November 1914, exactly 100 years ago, the British Expeditionary Force and the German Army fought the First Battle of Ypres in northern Belgium. Before World War I was over, Ypres was ...

YPRES, Belgium — A dawn cannon salute in western Belgium has marked the start of one of World War I’s bloodiest battles 100 years ago. Around 100 people gathered Monday at the Welsh memorial in ...

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.

BERLIN -- The Germans are continuing to advance in the region to the north. Northeast of Ypres they have stormed and taken the canal town of Lizerne, on the west bank of the Yser. Additional prisoners ...

YPRES, Belgium — Dismembered soldiers sucked into cesspools of mud. Shattered tree trunks and the waft of poison gas hovering over the wounded who were awaiting their fates on the scarred soil of ...

YPRES, Belgium (AP) — The Belgian and British royal families, Germany’s foreign minister and descendants of some of those who died in one of the First World War’s bloodiest battles gathered Monday in ...

A recent edition of Dan Carlin's wonderful podcast series Hardcore History recounts a frightening moment in our civilization's history. Just over 99 years ago this week in a corner of Flanders, the ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

In Britain and the Commonwealth of Countries, former territories of the British Empire, a red poppy worn on one's lapel is a reminder of the costs of war and those who died fighting those wars. In ...