They were designed to destroy the trenches, tear through barbed wire defences ... northern France, during World War One. Around 75,000 British soldiers suffered from the condition during WW1.

The high-tech war in Ukraine has led to a low-tech twist. To combat drones, the Russian military is deploying a centuries-old ...

A soldier’s severed hands clinging to barbed wire is just one moment that sears itself into your mind. The expert view: ’Its depiction of the war, only a dozen years after it ended ...

Underneath, tanks advance in a tight formation across the frozen soil firing near combat trenches. It may sound like a war zone – but it is not one ... a row of barbed wire in front of deep ...

A barman in a British pub around ... war. Jute was a tough natural fibre that could be used to make strong, hard-wearing fabrics. During World War One, jute was used to make sandbags to fortify ...

Demilitarized zones—from Vietnam to Korea, Cyprus and Antarctica—require tourists to look beyond what exists and to find the ...

She was finally given peace of mind after her son Burt, 61, spent £450 erecting barbed wire around the top of her ... for soldiers during the Second World War, has vowed to fight on.

Ihor Vizirenko, who has fought against drones, armored vehicles and tanks in one of this ... much like those of World War I, with muddy, rodent-ridden trenches and barbed wire coiling off into ...

Strangers to one another ... climbed the barbed wire. It was very foggy and the snow was thick. There were some railway tracks. Before leaving I checked the direction, and for around 5 kilometers ...

Local activist Mel Packer said people’s pride in Pittsburgh as a union town is “phony” and is perhaps inflated by the local steel industry’s contributions during World War II ... 10-foot fence topped ...