Nurse's WW1 album with memories from the trenches smashes estimates at auction
An album containing the memories of soldiers from the First World War has sold for thousands at auction. The scrapbook, found ...
Museum Director researching 'The Great War' in Berkeley County
World War I is also called "The Great War" because of its scale and carnage. The United States declared war on Germany in 1917, and it is estimated that more ...
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“Terrorists in Retirement” Brings Wartime Traumas Back to Life
With in-depth interviews and startling reënactments, the director Mosco Boucault details the anguish and the heroism of a ...
Ukrainian troops train for trench warfare near France's WW1 battlefields
The scene could be 3,000 km (1,860 miles) away in Ukraine's Donbas region, but instead some 2,000 Ukrainian conscripts and ...
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Lochgelly High School Remembers
On the evening of the 11th of November the history ambassadors at Lochgelly Highschool put on an event to commemorate the ...
Remains of World War II airman from Massachusetts identified 82 years after dying as prisoner of war
U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. 1st Class Bernard J. Calvi, 23, died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines during World War ...
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The Meaning of the First World War
World War I gave rise to a heated century-long debate about its causes. In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson surveys this ...
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Harriet Tubman Just Became a One-Star General, More Than 150 Years After Serving With the Union Army
The celebrated Underground Railroad conductor received posthumous recognition for her service as a spy, scout, nurse and cook ...
Zhuhai attack: List of previous mass killings in China
The Zhuhai attack in which a driver in southern China ploughed his car into a crowd of people and killed 35 people, severely ...
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When the ‘Sun Tobacco Fund’ Rushed to the Trenches of World War I a Taste of Home
The pack or two a soldier might carry in his pocket would be burned up during “the many lazy days devoted to sailing across ...
First World War memorial dedicated to brave soldier given Grade II listing
A memorial dedicated to a soldier who was fatally shot as he delivered a message during the First World War has been given ...
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Remembrance Day: Diary of Sgt. John Muir, January-May, 1915
May 20, 1915 was Sgt. John Muir’s last entry. He was killed in the Second Battle pf Ypres, Belgium, on May 24, 1915. This battle marked the first mass use of poison gas by the German Army.