Explore the forgotten history of the 500,000 cats that served in the WWI trenches—from hunting rats to alerting soldiers of gas attacks.

Trenches were dug by the soldiers in three different ways. The first way, the easiest and fastest, was called “entrenching.” It was dug straight into the ground from the top, but it left the soldiers ...

World War II gets all the attention. In games, movies, books, and all other forms of media, there’s a weird fixation on the second official world war. I happen to be utterly fascinated by both World ...