Their German enemies were dug in along the other. Every day they tried hard to blast each other into oblivion. In the trenches, corpses mounted, soldiers huddled in mud and freezing water and few ...

Summary: By Christmas 1914 soldiers from the Allied and German armies had dug-in along a trench system reaching from Switzerland to the North Sea. On Christmas Eve the guns fell silent.

More than a century after it was dispatched by a German soldier, a message sent via carrier pigeon has been found by chance. In September, a couple out for a stroll in the eastern French Alsace ...