Love letters from First World War soldiers fighting in the Battle of Passchendaele have been revealed a hundred years on from the bloody clash on the Western Front. In total there were about 275,000 ...

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PASSCHENDAELE, Belgium (Reuters) - Relatives read letters and diary excerpts from soldiers who died in the World War One battle of Passchendaele when they gathered on Monday for a ceremony to mark 100 ...

Poppies are dropped during the Last Post ceremony, which has taken place every night since 1928, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Ypres, Menin Gate Memorial, as part of the Passchendaele ...

1st Half – Futility (20mins) – Film about one man’s horror at the battle of interval in 1917, where half a million men died in 3 months. Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan will read the letters sent ...

Three months of fighting to gain the Flanders village of Passchendaele in horrific muddy conditions claimed around half a million allied and German casualties. In a solemn ceremony at the huge Tyne ...

July 11 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth will visit Belgium on Thursday to mark the 90th anniversary of the start of the World War One battle of Passchendaele. Here are some facts about the major British ...

“Passchendaele: the Lost Victory of WWI” by Nick Lloyd (Basic Books, 410 pages, $32). A century ago, Europe was engulfed in the First World War. In April 1917 the United States entered that conflict.

Unleashed by an archduke’s assassination, World War I gradually entangled more and more countries, killing millions of soldiers and civilians and touching multiple ...