also known as the Fourth Battle of Ypres is underway. 22 year old Aníbal Augusto Milhais from the Portuguese Expeditionary corps finds himself in the midst of the battle. What happened next was ...

Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud. Ypres was the principal town within a salient (or bulge ...

The Daily Mirror reports the Germans' use of 'asphyxiating gas' in the trenches around Ypres, details some of the gains made by the Allies on the Western Front and provides the latest war news ...

A new addition to Oxford’s “Great Battles” series, Ypres is not a detailed account of the several protracted battles for that famed Belgian city. Rather, it is an exploration of the evolution of “the ...

The First Battle of Ypres - one of five - the previous October and November claimed more than 250,000 lives. Now similar scenes are playing out around a small Ukrainian city. History has a way of ...

Next 31 July 2017 will mark a century since the beginning of the Third Battle of Ypres – widely known as Passchendaele. The UK Government, in collaboration with the Belgian Government ...

British casualties at the battles of Ypres were 420,000. The city was razed to the ground and a person on a horse could see across the whole city. The original cathedral was begun in 1221 and was ...