"We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields." - Lt-Col John McRae1915 was meant to be a brief detour on the road to victory. Instead, it beca...

"We are about to engage in a battle on which the fate of our country depends...the moment has passed for looking at the rear...Troops that can advance no farther must, at any price, hold the ground they have conquered and die on the spot ra...

“The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.” - Guglielmo Marconi, 1912Long before the first shots were fired in August 1914, Europe had been quietly preparing for disaster. In this episo...

"In fourteen years Leopold has deliberately destroyed more lives than have suffered death on all the battlefields of this planet for the past thousand years..." - Mark TwainIn this episode of The Hungry Historian, we dive into o...

History isn’t just the tale of kings and queens, of armies and empires. It’s also the story of how we’ve suffered, how we’ve punished, and how far humanity has gone to make death a spectacle.In this Halloween special, The Hungry Histori...