Publisher’s Description:’The story of each tour venue is told by those who were there and brought to life by specially commissioned photography. Poppies: Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red is the only official publication to capture the journey of this landmark artwork.’
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Researchers are trying to discover more about the stories of 250,000 refugees who came to Britain from Belgium after Germany invaded in August 1914.
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Publisher’s Description:’In this highly original, gripping book Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War.’
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Major Paul Knight on the Allied attack in September 1918 that dealt a fatal blow to the Central Powers in the Middle East.
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Major Paul Knight on the Allied attack in September 1918 that dealt a fatal blow to the Central Powers in the Middle East.
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Four exhibitions have opened at the Imperial War Museum in London as part of Making a New World – IWM’s season of events for the close of the First World War Centenary.
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The official film of the British Army’s autumn campaign on the Somme in 1916 will be screened in Bristol, with live music, as part of an Armistice Centenary tour in November.
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A display of 62,000 poppies, representing Australia’s fallen in WW1, and a beam of light are among events announced by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice.
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President Macron will meet the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at Compiègne – and also tour regions of France devastated by the First World War as part of nationwide events marking the Armistice Centenary.
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Ahead of the official announcement, newspapers in Britain reported plans to invite Germany’s head-of-state to the Remembrance Sunday service in Whitehall, which this year coincides with the Armistice Centenary.
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