Mud, blood, and barbed wire. To an Allied soldier in the trenches of the Western Front in 1917, that seemed to be the future as well as the present. He had good reason for his fatalism. When the First ...
A postcard discovered in the diary of a German World War One officer has led his descendant to bring a message sent to the trenches more than a century ago back to the family of a fallen British ...
NPMMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a ...