Given the momentous changes that occurred in Irish politics and society during the First World War, it’s easy to overlook the extraordinary ‘Home Front’ efforts across the island between 1914 and 1918 ...

Now, 37 years after the end of that war, in the recent 12-day conflict, this virus has crossed trenches and reached deep into Iranian soil—into the rear lines of medical care and emergency services, ...

On 7 July 1916, Arthur Hubbard painfully set pen to paper in an attempt to explain to his mother why he was no longer in France. He had been taken from the battlefields and deposited in the East ...

Most of the 9.7 million soldiers who perished in WWI were killed by the conflict's unprecedented firepower. Many survivors experienced acute trauma. Hulton Archive / Getty Images In September 1914, at ...

The First World War devastated the lives of a generation of young men. But the trauma of war didn't end when the guns stopped firing... Thousands of soldiers returned from the battlefield shell ...

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 ...