Mud, blood, and barbed wire. To an Allied soldier in the trenches of the Western Front in 1917, that seemed to be the future as well as the present. He had good reason for his fatalism. When the First ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A football that British soldiers kicked across No Man's Land as they advanced toward German trenches during a World War One battle has been put on display in a London museum.

NPMMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a ...