The Providence Journal

Can't come home for Christmas: The remarkable tales of Christmas in the trenches

Bing Crosby recorded "I'll Be Home for Christmas" on Oct. 1, 1943, and despite its utter sadness, it remains one of the top Christmas songs of all time. Its timelessness transcends generations. Elvis ...
Military.com

German Officer Sacrificed His Life Trying to Save an American Soldier in the WWII Battle of Hurtgen Forest

A 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield on Nov. 12, 1944. Lt.
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Ukrainians looking for missing troops are finding Nazi bullets, World War II-era trenches, and the bones of German soldiers on the battlefield

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CNN

Captured Russian soldiers tell of low morale, disarray and horrors of trench warfare

For three days, shells and mortars were “flying and whistling overhead, exploding around us,” Anton, a Russian soldier positioned south of Bakhmut, tells CNN. “We were jumping like rabbits under ...
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Postcards from the trenches : a German soldier's testimony of the Great War / Irene Guenther

NPMMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a ...