Rail power has been the engine that built and toppled entire empires. Like so many an invention throughout history, it has been turned into a tool of warfare. In this episode, we are going to examine ...

World War I earned the grim title of “the War to end all wars” for a reason: the world had never before witnessed a conflict ...

The group is famous for its actions on Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula during World War I, but the writer/director chose to focus on the unit’s participation in the trench war in France ...

For an Egyptian shiphand near an Anzac training camp in Cairo during World War I, the unusual creature was something like a monster with the appearance of a giant rat. Except it wasn't a rat ...

2nd Lieutenant Noel Whittles, of the Lancashire Fusiliers 19th Battalion, described the "rat-infested" trenches ... on patrol in Amfreville in World War Two in 1944. Heartbroken, his father ...

The ultimate horror of trench rats was suffered in WWI when the rodents fed off food, wastes and corpses, promoting disease and affecting troops’ morale The military history tradition of the ...

No body-armoured heavies with trench raiding clubs. No tunnels choked with sickly, mushy-pea green gas. No rats feasting on my ankles ... Small potatoes. There’s a war on, etc. Those stagger ...

A US veteran who fought in Ukraine described the intense, close-quarters trench warfare there ... between trenches called "No Man's Land." In WWI, battles sometimes left hundreds of thousands ...

Trenches, mud, mateship, Anzac Day, hopefully a sense that war is futile and horrific; beyond that lies a great unknown. Based on true stories from WWI soldiers ... there’s enough rats and corpses ...

I have not heard any Metro Manila LGU declaring war on rats. Through the years, towns in Central Luzon would declare war on field rats that eat up palay. I remember some towns in Nueva Ecija would ...

Many traces of the war were left intact, and are often buried less than a foot below today's surface. The Dig Hill 80 project revealed a network of WWI trenches and underground infrastructure in ...