The Telegraph reports: It is bold of Radio 4, and its presenter, Michael Portillo, to challenge the orthodox account of the First World War, says Charles Moore Perhaps the greatest of all journalistic cichés is, ”One thing is certain: things will never be the same again.’’ In the case of the First World War, however, one might think it is [...]
The Irish Times report: Despite the lack of a subtitle, Peter Hart has written a military history, and a very good one it is. Brisk in style, and supported by vivid extracts from documents, as one would expect from the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum in London, it is immensely readable. It provides an essentially command-level account [...]
The Daily Mail reports: Historians seeking to identify troop of fallen WWI soldiers found in France Eric Saunders provided DNA sample to see if one was his great uncle Private Frederick Thompson was reported missing in action at the age of 20 Historians seeking to identify a troop of fallen World War One soldiers could be one step closer to [...]
The Telegraph reports: The English Heritage research will involve identification and analysis of all submarine shipwrecks from the period which are within territorial waters – 12 miles from the coast. Preliminary research by the team, studying historical records, has already identified three British and 41 German submarines from the conflict which are known to have sunk in the area. The [...]
The Daily Mail reports: Government to announce plans for Great War centenary today School children to be sent to battlefields of Europe as part of memorial August 4, 2014 marks 100 year since the outbreak of World War I School children will be sent to pivotal Great War sites to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the war, [...]
The Guardian reports: It was known as the Great War, and the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the first world war is to be marked next year on an appropriately grand scale. Cultural plans to reflect the impact of the conflict are now advanced enough to see it is going to be the biggest national commemoration observed in the UK. In the [...]
The Daily Mail reports: Forgotten diary of Albert ‘Bob’ Smale has been rediscovered by family Details salvage operation to raise world’s first underwater aircraft carrier Contact with HMS M2 was lost in January 1932 during routine exercise All of the vessel’s 60-strong crew lost their lives in the tragedy The logbook reveals it was a direct result of failure to secure the doors [...]
Over 18 million people have lost their lives in the first major armed conflict after the industrial revolution. Being the mother of many technological and socioeconomic reforms, WW1 was directly responsible for great advances in aviation, naval and subterranean transport, and wireless communications. It also caused drastic changes to the structure of western societies, altered traditional family roles, [...]
A Scottish regiment threatened to shoot German troops if they left their trench during a famous Christmas truce newly discovered letters have revealed. During the Christmas truce of 1914 troops from both sides famously took part in an impromptu game of football during an unofficial ceasefire on the Western Front. The game has gone down in history as a rare [...]
The Daily Mail reports: Remains found at the site of the village of Fleury-devant-Douaumont, which was destroyed during the Battle of Verdun It is believed that the location where the men were found was a first-aid station blown apart by a German artillery shell The Battle of Verdun was the longest and one of the most devastating battles in the [...]
France salutes Americans who servedJune 19, 2013
96-yr-old vet one of the last of WWII’s Flying TigersJune 18, 2013
Rosies returns to former WWII bomber Willow Run before demolitionJune 18, 2013
Fragments of Teddy Roosevelt’s son ‘s downed WWI aircraft to be auctionedJune 18, 2013
OnThisDay 1940: Churchill gives his ‘Their Finest Hour’ speech. Listen to a clip hereJune 18, 2013
Abandoned Plane Wrecks of the NorthJune 18, 2013
The Centurion Tank – Reviewed by Mark BarnesJune 18, 2013
Battlefield World War Two: Battle for Caen, Normandy 1944 (Full documentary)June 18, 2013
Top Nazi war crimes suspect Laszlo Csatari charged in HungaryJune 18, 2013
Duckmarine sinks in Albert Dock for second time in three monthsJune 18, 2013
‘Lord Haw-Haw’ hanged 1946June 18, 2013
How Napoleon’s semaphore telegraph changed the worldJune 18, 2013
Last surviving Dornier 17 bomber arrives at RAF Museum Cosford (Video)June 18, 2013
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight – Queens Birthday Flypast from INSIDE the LancasterJune 18, 2013
Jessup man’s tank was hit three times in WWII but held on to end of warJune 18, 2013
WWII Museum sponsors cruise to NormandyJune 17, 2013
Woman given stack of WWII letters tracks down author’s sonJune 17, 2013
Japan: The World’s Really Lucky CountryJune 17, 2013
Abandoned Airfields, Airports & AirplanesJune 17, 2013
Unlikely hero of ArnhemJune 17, 2013
