The Blitz of 1918
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Baldwin’s pessimism was based on a crucial – but often overlooked – episode in the First World War that was to influence decisively the course of the Second …
Art that brings life to the Leas
Financial Times – London,England,UK
Christian Boltanski picked up on the [...]
Fromelles dig finds WWI grave site
ABC Online – Australia
An excavation in north-eastern France has uncovered a mass grave where up to 170 Australian soldiers were buried in World War I. On the night of July 19, …
Dig starts at WWI grave site
ABC Online – Australia
Archaeological experts in [...]
A website fit for heroes: 14m first world war medals recorded online
Scans of record cards reveal exploits of 5.5m soldiers – and some famous
names
* Esther Addley
* The Guardian,
* Wednesday February 20 2008
Daily Telegraph: Online tribute to Winston’s Little Army
By Graham Tibbetts
Last Updated: 1:54am GMT 04/02/2008
The stirring exploits of a legendary fighting force nicknamed “Winston’s Little Army” are published online today, including the stories of the youngest officer to die in the First World War and one of its most celebrated poets.
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Martin Wainwright
Friday November 16, 2007
The Guardian
The public will be able to read almost 50 unpublished letters from the first world war trenches by the writer JB Priestley, one of the last great literary voices of the conflict, from next month.
The archive of 47 letters and postcards to his father, sister and stepmother have been given [...]
By Fredrick Kunkle
One by one, members of the small crowd on a hilltop at Arlington National Cemetery approached the man who had beaten all the odds…
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War historians believe that a different officer who died at Loos in 1915 lies in cemetery
David Smith, Sunday November 4, 2007
The Observer
‘Known unto God’ – the simple, consoling epitaph on the graves of nameless soldiers will resonate next week on Remembrance Sunday. It was penned by Rudyard Kipling, the writer whose own son went missing [...]
War historians believe that a different officer who died at Loos in 1915 lies in cemetery
David Smith, Sunday November 4, 2007
The Observer
‘Known unto God’ – the simple, consoling epitaph on the graves of nameless soldiers will resonate next week on Remembrance Sunday. It was penned by Rudyard Kipling, the writer whose own son went missing [...]
