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A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...
The Great War – the First World War – had its own stories of Foo Fighters, again set against the paranoid backdrop of technology advancing seemingly out of control. The Airship Scare or ...
World War I was one of the biggest conflicts in human history, known as the “war to ... there are also several great films about the First World War, despite the smaller selection.
“Every normal attitude of life was imitated by these dead men,” according to the patriotic serial The Times History of the ... to shell shock from the First World War. By a savage twist ...
It had been lodged in his spine since the First World War. His niece Molly Bihet brought the bullet to BBC Guernsey's A History of the World event and told us how her uncle Reg had walked with ...
It was on April 6 in 1917, that the United States abandoned its stance of neutrality and officially joined the Allied powers in World War I, declaring war against imperial Germany. It was also this ...
At the start of the First World War, patriotic enthusiasm and economic hard times kept volunteer recruitment numbers high in Canada. (National Archives of Canada) At beginning of the First World ...
Between 2014 and 2018, the UK marked the centenary of the First World War, which sparked a renewed interest in the history of the war, from a British and multinational perspective. As well as ...