While the first World War popularized the expression “no man’s land” for a deadly region between two opposing armies on the field of battle, the phrase dates back nearly a millennium in the ...

During World War I, beyond the wire and away from the confines of the trenches lived the wild men of No Man’s Land. These soldiers — stragglers from seven armies that clashed on the ...

No Man's Land by Lucien Jonas, 1927, Library of Congress During World War I, No Man’s Land was both an actual and a metaphorical space. It separated the front lines of the opposing armies and ...

He was no doubt handy with a bayonet and a rifle. But as a young soldier in the First World War, Len Smith's deadliest ... To crawl into No Man's Land and make these sketches was very brave.' ...

The phrase "no man's land" conjures up the zone between opposing trenches on the Western Front of World War I. "No Man's Land" is also the title of Simon Tolkien's barnburner of a novel ...

Drawing on the imagery of the First World War, “the war that was supposed ... During the Great War, no man’s land was the strip of war-churned earth that separated the opposing trench lines.

A poppy picked during World War I and preserved between the pages of a book has been given a new lease of life. The flower, which was taken from the area known as 'No Man's land' in Flanders in ...

There was a time when understanding World War I required stops in Albert, Péronne and Verdun. All three French towns were home to what many considered the best museums of the Great War.