A new Channel 4 documentary, War Horse: the Real Story, tells what it was really like for the horses of the First World War. read more
World War I was almost as much a collision of horses as of men. When six million soldiers marched against each other in 1914, so did two million horses, conscripted from farms and fields in every country of Europe to carry soldiers, pull carts and guns in an age when motor vehicles were still few and primitive. read more