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R.C. Sherriff's classic play focused on the officer class, but the recent film adaptation has given working-class soldiers a voice.
The Great War uses scale models to give a worm's eye view of titanic violence. In Kings of War, by contrast, lethal events are viewed from the unsteady perspective of leaders.
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The audio version of a long read on the daring mathematicians who took to the skies to help make early air travel safer.
With many men 'missing' from the population in the aftermath of the 1918 flu, women stepped into public roles that hadn't previously been open to them.
A clock designed to work for 10 millennia is being built – but what is the point of it?
Sometimes diplomacy won the day, sometimes it didn't.
As tens of thousands of injured soldiers filled the UK's overwhelmed hospitals, the scale of World War I became all too apparent.
Don't believe these 10 common myths about the 1918 Spanish flu.
America finds itself in uncharted territory under Donald Trump – not least when it comes to climate change and Israel policy.
Either medals or destruction appears to await canine companions from the battlefield.
A simple signature can lead to an incredible story.
Four empires fell, a world was shaken, a new order arose – and the long 20th century really began.
Scars shouldn't be a shorthand for evil.
During World War I, Marie Curie left her lab behind, inventing a mobile X-ray unit that could travel to the battlefront and training 150 women to operate these 'Little Curies.'
On the trail of the men of Britain's Royal Aircraft Factory, who gave their lives to help create the world's first air force.
Whether it be African-Americans, Catholics or transgender people, the armed forces have played a vital role in shaping US social policy toward the country's minorities.
The French Army's efforts in the world wars have long been maligned. Its soldiers deserve better.
What might be the purpose of historical fiction? Perhaps to the humble and subtle to recognise and pay tribute to lives that came before us.
The first fully industrialised war prompted many to draw parallels between human society and the insect world.
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