This summer marks the start of the 90th anniversary commemorations for the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. From June to November 2007, a number of special events and memorials will be held in the ...

“So fruitless in its results, so depressing in its direction was the 1917 offensive, that ‘Passchendaele’ has come to be synonym for military failure, a name black-bordered in the records of the ...

He was one of the many fallen First World War soldiers for whom there is no private grave. In 1917, Private Jack Hunter died in his brother Jim's arms and was buried where he fell - in the mud at ...

Britain's Prince Charles hailed the "courage and bravery" of soldiers who fought at Passchendaele as he led thousands of their descendants at centenary tributes for one of World War I's bloodiest ...

“Passchendaele: the Lost Victory of WWI” by Nick Lloyd (Basic Books, 410 pages, $32). A century ago, Europe was engulfed in the First World War. In April 1917 the United States entered that conflict.