Publisher’s Description: “Mallinson brings his experience as a professional soldier to bear on the individuals, circumstances and events and the result is a vivid, compelling new history of the beginnings of the Great War that speculates – tantalizingly – on what might have been…”
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Publisher’s Description: “Drawing on many fresh new sources, this account reveals a Europe very different from the familiar picture, putting Serbia and the Balkans at the centre of the story”.
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Publishers Description: “Jeremy Paxman’s magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people. We may think we know about it, but what was life really like for the British people during the First World War?”
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Publisher’s Description: “An international team of leading historians chart how a war made possible by globalisation and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by year in scale and destructive power far beyond what anyone had anticipated in 1914”.
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Applications to take part in a ballot for tickets to attend Gallipoli for the Anzac Centenary in 2015 have closed.
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An initiative by the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery will see a statue of the First World War soldier, physician and poet, John McCrae, erected in Ottawa, Canada.
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The BBC is preparing to launch a major series of programmes highlighting the impact of the First World War on people across the nations and regions of the UK as they went about their daily lives.
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The Royal Canadian Mint has announced that it will produce a special coin to commemorate the Centenary of the declaration of the First World War.
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Centenary News contributor Claire Wotherspoon reports on the education system in Germany before the First World War and how it was changed by the conflict
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A monthly blog documents events taking place 100 years ago.
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