We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across ...

Mud, blood, and barbed wire. To an Allied soldier in the trenches of the Western Front in 1917, that seemed to be the future as well as the present. He had good reason for his fatalism. When the First ...

MADISON - It looks hurriedly scribbled. Using a pencil on a small piece of paper, the commanding officer of the Wisconsin National Guard's 1st Battalion, 127th Infantry wrote two sentences that ...