20th December 1915: The withdrawal of Allied troops from Suvla and Anzac Cove was completed.
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‘Rearranging History’ – US exhibition pieces together story of giant WW1 painting
Missing fragments from a Great War masterpiece are back on view for the first time in decades at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, as CN contributor Patrick Gregory discovers.
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‘Rearranging History’ – US exhibition pieces together story of giant WW1 painting
Missing fragments from a Great War masterpiece are back on view for the first time in decades at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, as CN contributor Patrick Gregory discovers.
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Focus on Marmolada Grande Guerra: Italian museum remembering Alpine war
Centenary News profiles Marmolada Grande Guerra, a museum remembering Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops who fought in the ice and snow of the Dolomite Mountains.
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Czech WW1 soldiers at Christmas – remembered on Radio Prague
Czech soldiers’ stories of Christmas in the First World War are told in a special programme broadcast on Radio Prague.
Continue readingCentennial Countdown Blog Posting for December 2015
The latest Centennial Countdown posting by the American First World War blogger Dennis Cross – covering December 1915.
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Centenary year of 2015 – recalled in pictures from Centenary News
Pictures taken by the Centenary News team recall some of the many events over the past year, marking First World War anniversaries from 1915.
Continue readingBook Review – Regeneration
Centenary News Review:’Without a doubt Barker uses our own comfort and modern sensibilities against us to create an impact so powerful that it will shake the reader to their core, reminding us how the issues of 1914 still plague modern society.Whether it be from a failing of humanity in its continuation of war, the blind faith we have in politics, the treatment of mental health, or the idea of gender and the rights of women, the novel strips humans to their base prejudices and tries to restructure a nonsensical war as something that we should have learned from instead of a conflict that we should simply forget or glorify.’
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Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2016
Centenary News looks ahead to the some of the major First World War anniversaries which will be remembered in 2016.
Continue readingWW1 anniversaries & events in 2016
Centenary News looks ahead to the some of the major First World War anniversaries which will be remembered in 2016.
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