Shell-shock went from being considered a legitimate physical injury to being a sign of weakness, of both the battalion and the soldiers within it. One historian estimates at least 20 percent of men ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian composer Nicholas Lens and Australian rocker Nick Cave have joined forces to create an opera marking the centenary of World War One, depicting the horrors of the conflict ...
From shell shock in WWI to PTSD today many of those who made it home from war were left mentally scarred and traumatised. Historian Dan Snow explores the on-going mental health crisis in veterans.
What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.
A magnet fisher was shocked to discover an object he had been 'whacking with a hammer' was actually a - WW1 artillery shell. Raymond Berry, 53, was fishing in the river Medway in Maidstone, Kent, with ...
A magnet fisher was shocked to discover that an object he had been 'whacking with a hammer' was actually a WWI artillery shell. Raymond Berry, 53, was fishing in the River Medway in Maidstone, Kent, ...