1914–1915 The front comes over the passesFront prichádza cez priesmyky

Humenné stands at the bottom of the road to the Carpathian passes, and in the winter of 1914–15 that road became a front line. Russian armies pushed over the ridges to the north and east, and the fighting swung back and forth along the crest for months in deep snow; both sides lost men in numbers that are hard to picture, as much to cold and disease as to bullets. The military cemeteries in the villages around the town date from this war or from the next one over the same ground. Nothing about the town's position had changed since the thirteenth century — which is exactly why the war arrived here.Humenné leží na spodnom konci cesty ku karpatským priesmykom a v zime 1914 – 1915 sa z tejto cesty stala frontová línia. Ruské armády sa pretlačili cez hrebene na severe a východe a boje sa mesiace prelievali sem a tam po hrebeni v hlbokom snehu; obe strany strácali ľudí v počtoch, ktoré si je ťažko predstaviť, a rovnako ich kosil mráz a choroby ako guľky. Vojenské cintoríny v obciach okolo mesta pochádzajú z tejto vojny alebo z tej ďalšej na tom istom teréne. Na polohe mesta sa od trinásteho storočia nezmenilo nič — a presne preto sem vojna prišla.