But both sides in World War One soon realised the muddy ground, barbed wire and machine guns made it too difficult to use horses for fighting. Instead millions of horses were used to carry people ...

The Great War was supposed to be over by Christmas of 1914. But five months after the war began in July, the front was deadlocked. The unprecedented losses at the Battles of Tannenberg, the Marne ...

The Christmas Truce has become one of the most storied parts of World War I. ... Christmas 1914 was still early in the war. The armies on both sides of the Western front were by and large not ...