During the hellish Battle of Verdun that raged from February to December of 1916, an estimated 60 million shells were blasted between the French and the Germans, leaving the people and the ground ...

Artifacts that soldiers who are in the middle of battle using wreckage of war, such as bullets, shrapnel, bone, hair,Trench Art"is. Trench art, which is sometimes required and sometimes created from ...

Considering his military background, it is no surprise Peter Harvell prefers collecting art made from artillery shells and bayonets to paintings of pastel pansies or Impressionist haystacks.

Nowhere is this more true than in the kind of war objects called trench art, a term bequeathed by World War I but in fact a concept rather than a name applied solely to items belonging to a particular ...

For many Australians, our perceptions of the first world war and the foreign lands on which that war was fought have been shaped by our family’s war mementos: medals, uniforms, cigar cases, and other ...

Since childhood, antique dealer Jeff Shrader of Jackson has been intrigued by pieces of "trench art," the brass relics created by soldiers during World War I and World War II. Nearly 250 of the shiny, ...

HOW IT STARTED Soldiers transformed battlefield objects into objets d’art; thanks to the Internet, they’re being traded JUDGMENT CALL It’s beautiful, bizarre, and can be worth a bomb Californian Jane ...