Martin Marix Evans explores the muddy terrain of the Third Battle of Ypres, the effects it had on the action, and what
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U-boat 118 had been launched in February 1918, and in the last couple of months of the war dispatched two British ships
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‘The War is not funny, Sir.’ – Colonel Howfield. ‘I’ve a feeling that may be the point.’ – General Mitford. Seema Syeda reviews Ian
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The UK Government is holding two commemorative events in Ypres, Belgium, to mark the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele (Third
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Shifting Sands is an exhibition about T E Lawrence, probably known to most of us as ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. The title inevitably
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The name of this stunning museum is a bit of a misnomer for, if anything, it is not national but international in
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'The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war,' Churchill wrote, 'was the U-boat peril.'
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The Russian Imperial Army has been portrayed as unfit to wage a modern war. It is best known for a catalogue of
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Neat ‘tache… who was he? Once called ‘the most powerful man in Germany’, Erich Ludendorff was a prominent general in the German Army
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How do you deal with someone suffering from mental illness if you do not believe that such a condition exists? If you feel that it is
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