A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

In the first few weeks of the First World War, the British Army requisitioned more than 120,000 ... whose story has been discovered thanks to a poem the heartbroken farmer wrote after she had been ...

The Royal British Legion says there is no "correct" way to wear a poppy - just that you must "wear it with pride". Most people tend to pin one on a coat lapel. "Wearing a poppy is a personal choice ...

Those words graphically bring to life a terrifying gas attack on a British trench during the First World War. They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by ...

One of the Canadians killed in action early in the First World War inspired Lt.-Col. John McCrae – a Canadian doctor and ...

America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

In Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets, we find no trace of Russia. We do find a multicultural Tatar Crimea with all its dated glory ...

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

On Saturday, Delano took a pause to recognize our military with an early Veteran’s Day parade in honor of our nation’s heroes ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very ... classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war. It isn’t easy to lower the temperature ...