(See how World War I energized mapmaking at National Geographic.) Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National ...

In the midst of the unrelenting violence of World War I, a cease-fire suddenly swept ... One Irish rifleman ventured out of his trench to test the invitation. After arriving back safely with ...

At the start of World War ... trenches, aiming to destroy their defences. British miners had also tunnelled under no man’s land and set huge explosives to detonate on the morning of 1 July ...