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 ...

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 ...

With the Battle of the Aisne grinding to a halt as trench warfare gradually set in both the German and Allied commanders realised the dominance of the defensive established by quick firing artillery ...

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 ...

A new era is born.