On a quiet forest edge that once held a strategic position, detectorists uncover a story spanning two world wars: first a ...

The young German soldier has his rifle slung over his shoulder, a half-eaten sandwich in his left hand and a drinking cup in his right. As he steps to the refreshment window, a woman in a white apron ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Reenactors portraying German World War I soldiers discussed their uniforms, equipment, and the difficulties the common soldier faced. They were ...

Rochester resident Helen McCracken experienced a jolt of recognition from an unexpected source recently. Leafing through the Post-Bulletin, McCracken found herself looking at a photo of a familiar ...

At 10:59 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, a German machine gun crew fired a burst of rounds at approaching Americans. One bullet struck 23-year-old Pvt. Henry Gunther in the left temple. He died instantly.

The picture on the postcard was of Pte Percy Walsh and his colleagues and family A postcard discovered in the diary of a German World War One officer has led his descendant to bring a message sent to ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The remains of more than 200 German soldiers who were buried alive in a tunnel in northeastern France during the World War I will not be recovered. The German government has instead decided to declare ...

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 ...