But both sides in World War One soon realised the muddy ground, barbed wire and machine guns made it too difficult to use horses for fighting. Instead millions of horses were used to carry people ...

The Blue Star Museums program is again offering free admission to currently serving military members and up to five family members this summer.

JOLIET, Ill., April 27.--The war cloud in the barb wire world, mentioned in these dispatches recently, has burst. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Barbed wire was one of most effective tools White settlers ... Vanderbilt got his idea by observing the battlefields in Europe during World War I. “The use of [barbed-wire] entanglements is ...

Artist Thomas Naegele, a German-born war refugee ... recording a distinctive one-of-a-kind record of life behind barbed wire. (static sounds) (indistinct chatter) -[Thomas] This is a sort of ...

It’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce ... a pitch being marked out between bits of barbed wire, an elderly colonel — probably with a preposterous ...