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 ...

Presenter Dan Snow discusses why The Battle of Passchendaele was such a unique moment in the First World War. Passchendaele. The word itself conjures up an image of hell. A shattered landscape ...

He was friends with a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish rebellion against British rule, but died fighting for Britain in Passchendaele. Monday marks 100 years since his death.