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The public will be able to read almost 50 unpublished letters from the first world war trenches by the writer JB Priestley, one of the last great literary voices of the conflict, from next month.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 [...]
Project Preservation: 8 Sites in D.C.
While maintaining a watchful eye on historic buildings in Washington, the D.C. Preservation League has created a list of “Most Endangered Places” to track particularly vulnerable real estate. Some of the following locations from previous lists have been saved, but others remain endangered.
D.C. War Memorial
Location: West Potomac Park
Status: Endangered
Despite its [...]
One man’s diary of his experiences on the Western Front have been published on-line by his grandson on this website.
The diary has been featured in The Guardian and on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
I hate badges and ribbons, but this year I have decided to wear a poppy for the first time
By Matthew Parris, 7 November 2007
[...] So why was it that last week at Marylebone Station, for the first time in my life, I found myself marching up to the elderly gentleman at his poppy stand and, [...]
