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 ...

Ukrainian soldier-poets are springing up all along the front lines of their war against Russia, feeding a literary ...

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, ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls.

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

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 ...

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

Trump would benefit from this history lesson. As he enters office, he has promised to end the war in Ukraine, deport large ...

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

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