Michael Korda writes a beautiful book in remembrance of the World War I poets whose work he loved. We hope you’re enjoying ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

One of the Canadians killed in action early in the First World War inspired Lt.-Col. John McCrae – a Canadian doctor and teacher born in Guelph, Ont. – to write his memorial poem In Flanders Fields, ...

In the first few weeks of the First World War, the British Army requisitioned more than 120,000 horses to serve across the Channel. In four years of conflict, some eight million horses, donkeys and ...

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

The flower became widely used starting in World War I thanks to a 1915 poem written by Canadian soldier Major John McCrae, ...

John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance ...

I’d listened to my father talk ‘bout days of World War II. And how he served his country. He wore the Navy Blue.

Born in 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire, Owen enlisted in the Army in 1915 and witnessed the trench warfare of World ... s poems ...

The Royal British Legion says there is no "correct" way to wear a poppy - just that you must "wear it with pride". Most ...

Screening in New York and Los Angeles, genre-defying film about how poetic language can heal trauma points to how Israelis ...