In October and November 1914, exactly 100 years ago, the British Expeditionary Force and the German Army fought the First Battle of Ypres in northern Belgium. Before World War I was over, Ypres was ...

Robert Cowley’s "The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War" is an ambitious and meticulously crafted study of the opening months of the First World War.

Ypres is a place that has seared itself into both the collective soul and the communal memory of the British people. An historic cloth town lying in the flat landscape of northern Flanders, it has ...

A new addition to Oxford’s “Great Battles” series, Ypres is not a detailed account of the several protracted battles for that famed Belgian city. Rather, it is an exploration of the evolution of “the ...

Armistice Day next Tuesday is also the centenary of the last great spasm of the First Battle of Ypres. On November 11, 1914 the Germans launched a fresh attack on the thin line of the British ...

With the Battle of the Aisne grinding to a halt as trench warfare gradually set in both the German and Allied commanders realised the dominance of the defensive established by quick firing artillery ...

HISTORIAN Steve Berridge, pictured right, is transcribing the war diary and regimental chronicle of the 2nd Ox and Bucks Light Infantry. It is a huge task and Mr Berridge, a volunteer at the Soldiers ...