Why people still consume bacteria taken from a First World War soldier’s poop

War zones often breed desperation, but sometimes they birth medical miracles too, even though they might be bizarre.A similar ...
The New Yorker

The First World War, in Sharp Focus

The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

A Century in the Trenches — The 10 Greatest World War I Movies of the Last 100 Years, Ranked

Over the last century, modern gems like 1917 and ageless classics like Lawrence of Arabia have presented the brutality and ...
Southeast Missourian

World War I's Christmas Truce: When fighting paused for the holiday

On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most ...
collider

10 Best World War I Epics, Ranked

Jeremy has more than 2200 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...
The Conversation

After the first world war, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home

Alice Vernon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...