For every nation, there are battles whose names for one reason or another mean more to their people than most. For Americans, its Gettysburg. For Australians and New Zealanders, its Gallipoli. For the ...

Matthew Davenport said he was inspired by a veteran to write "First Over There," a non-fiction account of the first World War I battle that Americans fought in against the German army. Matthew ...

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 243rd installment in the series. The disastrous opening of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916 is ...

Here's some background information about World War I, also known as the First World War and the Great War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. Causes of World War I:The assassination of Archduke Franz ...

A sculpture honouring the 270 men from Sheffield who were killed in the Battle of the Somme in World War One has been created ...

Poppies are dropped during the Last Post ceremony, which has taken place every night since 1928, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Ypres, Menin Gate Memorial, as part of the Passchendaele ...

PARIS -- More than 20,000 people, most of them Canadians, attended a solemn ceremony Sunday to commemorate a World War I battle in northern France that remains indelibly etched on Canada's national ...

Joe Sacco is a cartoonist, graphic novelist and journalist; he's best-known for his dispatches from today's regions of conflict, like the Middle East and Bosnia, in cartoon form. But for his latest ...

Willie Geist wraps up Sunday TODAY by sharing mug shots sent in by viewers. This week, Willie gives a shout out to Jake, Jennifer, Mike and Ally who honored their grandpa Roy at the U.S. Marine ...

LONDON (AP) – Harry Patch, Britain’s last survivor of the trenches of World War I, was a reluctant soldier who became a powerful eyewitness to the horror of war, and a symbol of a lost generation.