This story originally appeared in the August 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine as "The Hidden World of the Great War ... the quarry from vandals. French soldiers warm up glasses of ...

A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...

The Flamme de la Liberte is situated in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which holds an unidentified member of the French forces killed during the First World War.

Three years later, President Woodrow Wilson also said that the war will "make the world safe for democracy ... Henri Barbusse, 1916 The French soldier said this in his novel Le Feu.

On April 22 1915, a greenish fog drifted over the battlefield north of Ypres in Belgium, choking to death some 5,000 French soldiers and heralding a new type of ...