By early September 1914, the German advance had reached within 30 miles of the French capital. Executing a modified version of the Schlieffen Plan, designed to quickly attack France through neutral ...

A historical marker will be placed at Fort Des Moines this summer to honor the 1,000 thousand black soldiers who trained there to become officers during World War One.

Sergeant Stubby supported his division through 17 battles in 18 months, survived a grenade blast and even caught a spy within ...

Except it wasn't a rat, but a young kangaroo brought from Australia by Indigenous soldier William Charles Westbury. Lieutenant Horace George Viney of the 3rd Light Horse Regiment recorded the ...

Its German soldiers are played by American actors, including Lew Ayres as Paul Bäumer, and there’s a strange early dissonance in trying to tally the accents with the uniforms. But the unsparing ...

Black men enlist for the Fort Des Moines' Officer Training Camp. Historian Don North said he’s got love for three things: history, the military and horses. He could pursue them all as a researcher of ...

Willie Walsh says Government ‘must intervene’ on Dublin Airport cap row, sees return to Russian air if a deal is done in Ukraine ...

Our grandparents turned crises into a generational post-war boom. The call is out in Halifax to do it again.