Most WW1 soldiers died on the Western Front, use our animated map to watch what happened at the battles of Ypres, Verdun and the Somme. ... Animated Map: The Western Front, 1914 - 1918.

An exhibit opening Friday at the Relic Room is called "Trench Maps: Military Cartography on the Western Front, 1914-1918." The exhibit features 19 original maps from World War I depiciting the key ...

The majority of deaths during the 1918-19 pandemic occurred during the "second wave." More people died worldwide during this pandemic (50 to 100 million) than in all of World War I (about 20 million).

A woman inherits a map of a World War I battlefield in France from her grandfather, an engineer under General Pershing. The map is of St. Mihiel, a little-known but key battle in which U.S. forces ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This map prefaced a 1918 ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- The first weeks of WWI combat service for the New York National Guard's 69th Infantry Regiment provided cause for both celebration and sorrow for the regiment's Irish ...

PARIS - The Great War pulled in close to 70 million soldiers on five continents, leaving some 10 million dead in battle and claiming many million more lives through hunger and disease. The 1914-18 ...

Bernard Sleigh’s 1918 map of a place he called “Fairyland” mashes up dozens of stories to make a comprehensive geography of make-believe: Rapunzel’s tower, cheek by jowl with Belle’s ...

11/11/1918, 10:59 A.M.: Henry Gunther is the Last Soldier Killed in WWI Published Oct 30, 2008 at 8:19 AM EDT Updated May 18, 2010 at 6:02 PM EDT By David Botti ...