Sometimes poor quality-control can be as lethal as bad design – this was certainly true in the case of HMS Glatton.
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Christopher Warner on sporting figures in conflict
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In his poem ‘Dulce et decorum est’, Wilfred Owen reflects upon his experiences in World War One to capture the horrors of
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As they enjoy their sparse meal at Beaumont-Hamel on 25 December 1916, the men seem indifferent to a fellow soldier’s grave just
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Because of the unrelenting ferocity of trench warfare, the term has also come to mean a fierce, grinding contest of a non-military
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Edward Henry Hynman Allenby was born in 1861 in Brackenhurst, Nottinghamshire in comfortable circumstances – a Victorian squire perhaps destined to help
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Rob Johnson’s achievement in this book is to take Colonel T E Lawrence seriously as a theoretician and practitioner of war, and
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In the post-war years, they were remembered on monuments and in cemeteries, ‘made present’ by absence, by anonymity rather than by naming.
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The bunker, under the village of Wijtschate in Flanders, is more than 20 feet underground and is believed to have accommodated up
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The U-boat went down with all hands and has rested on the seabed, some 37km (23 miles) off the coast of Yorkshire,
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