Watch lost by soldier during First World War returned to family in Canterbury after 107 years
A watch that belonged to a soldier during the First World War has been returned to his family in Kent after 107 years. It’s thought that Royal Field Artillery gunner George Burke lost his engraved ...
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Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Private Peaceful’: One-man show remembers UK WWI atrocity to its own
When author Michael Morpurgo learned about the British Army’s practice of executing its own soldiers during the First World ...
Vance Meets Zelensky After Signaling Support for Europe’s Far-Right Parties
At the Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance scolded European leaders for failing to uphold democratic values, ...
How Spanish king became last hope for missing World War One soldiers' relatives
A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...
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The Talented and Valiant Female Surgeon Who Joined Allied Forces in WWII and Broke Barriers Along the Way
Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...
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How Alice Hamilton Waged a One-Woman Campaign to Get the Lead Out of Everything
At first a crusader for workplace safety, the trained physician railed against the use of the toxic and ubiquitous material ...
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We Didn’t Realize This Is What Life Looked Like In WWI Trenches
World War I or the Great War began in 1914 and ended in 1918. It was one of the largest … Continue reading "We Didn’t Realize ...
How Somalis see the 'Black Hawk Down' battle three decades on
The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in ...
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A short history of the Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide ... into a powerful and easy to use global information system. The first page of Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the World Wide Web, ...
The Modern Voice of War Writing
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.
Harrowing account of the first day of the Battle of the Somme by pilot who was shot in the BUTTOCK is unearthed with dozens of unseen pictures
Lieutenant Edward Packe flew over the Western Front battlefield in a two-seater BE2c biplane at 7.30am on July 1, 1916. He was shot in the buttocks by a German fighter at 2,000ft.