Farm implements lay unretrieved in the fields, while corn stooks and haystacks rotted in no-man’s-land. In many ways, were a soldier brave or daft enough to look over the top, the scene meeting his eyes would have been one of a countryside largely unblemished by war, where copses and woods remain...
International law entitled prisoners of war to food, clothing and accommodation, but there was no such guarantee for enemy aliens. At the outbreak of war, British and German governments had given paid support to their own nationals living under the other’s jurisdiction. This meant, of course, tha...
Nicknamed the ‘Big Push’, the assault was designed to smash the enemy’s defences and allow the British to decisively break through the stalemate of the Western Front and relieve the French Army under pressure from the German offensive at Verdun. The attack would begin a general advance by the All...