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The Modern Voice of War Writing
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.
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What Was Daily Life Like in a WWI Trench? | Daily Routine of a British Soldier in the Trenches
We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across ...
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.
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The World War Two soldier buried without his brain
Donnie MacRae grew up in Gairloch and was a talented tailor Scottish soldier Donnie MacRae died as a German prisoner of war during World War Two ... months. At first he had double vision ...
The Scotsman15d
The invaluable century-old First World War archive from young Edinburgh soldier up for auction
He was a gifted young war poet who was killed in the First World War just days after his ... would claim the lives of almost 160,000 British soldiers. Mann was wounded on 9 April 1917 and died ...
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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 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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3 Most Feared & Deadliest WWII British Soldiers
In the years leading up to the start of the Second World War, Britain’s empire extended to every continent on Earth. As such, British forces fought in every theatre of the conflict alongside troops ...
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The World War Two soldier buried without his brain
Scottish soldier Donnie MacRae died as a German prisoner of war during World War Two - but it was ... quickly in the following months. At first he had double vision, tingling in his fingertips ...
Le Monde.fr28d
War in Ukraine: Some 300 North Korean soldiers are thought to have died on the front lines
The two captured soldiers ... War – or repatriate them, organize cremation ceremonies and create a new martyrs' cemetery dedicated to them. Read more Subscribers only Ukraine fires its first ...
King wipes away tears as he becomes first British head of state to visit Auschwitz on Holocaust Memorial Day
Charles joins dignitaries from around the world to mark 80th anniversary of liberation of Nazi concentration camp while Prince and Princess of Wales attend service in London alongside Keir Starmer ...
The Daily Telegraph28d
Ukraine is teaching British medics how to prepare for war
Evolutions in drone warfare and a return of First World ... the British ambassador’s residence called for governments to do more work with private businesses to support Ukraine’s war-stricken ...