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WW1

Lasting from 1914-1918, World War 1 was the  first truly global war and one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. Header image: Shutterstock.com

Liverpool, UK. October 4, 2020. Christmas Truce statue with football and handshake in front of the bombed out church

The Christmas Truce
Adolf Hitler stands in a convertible and shaking hands with his fans, Reproduction of antique photo.

British soldier allegedly spares the life of an injured Adolf Hitler
A photograph of the new Royal British Legion paper poppy

A history of the poppy
An Australian soldier carrying a wounded comrade during the WWI, Dardanelles Campaign. 1915.

The history of Anzac Day: Australia and New Zealand's day of remembrance
Miraculous Heavenly Light - Blue sky, fluffy clouds and a beautiful warm orange yellow sun beaming down radiating depicting a holy entity

The Angel of Mons and other supernatural stories from WWI
Accrington Pals by Tim Green | Flickr | Wikipedia | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

The Pals battalions of World War I
Mametz, Western Front, a winter scene, painting by Frank Crozier | Public Domain

Lesser known facts about The Battle of the Somme
Painting of the burial of The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey

The secret mission to select the Unknown Warrior

Was Churchill’s Dardanelles offensive doomed to fail?
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John Joseph Pershing
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Treaty of Versailles
A U.S. soldier crosses a road in front of a light tank in Normandy, France in WW2

Tanks in WW2
A human footprint beside a dog footprint on a beach

Man's Best Friend
A photograph of a small wild rat

Little Helpers
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Equidae Family
A photo of Dick, Kerr Ladies team in 1921

When women’s football was bigger than men’s
A WW1 helmet on poppies

The last Englishman - the unbelievable wartime exploits of AD Wintle
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The Russian Revolution, a Century On

Battle of Falklands 1914, William Lionel Wyllie,

The Empire Strikes Back: The First Battle of the Falkland Islands 1914
Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, sick with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston: Wikipedia

The forgotten agony - the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19
A photograph of Remembrance poppies on wooden crosses

Remembrance Sunday 2017
The Western Front

Operation Alberich, the campaign that inspired Sam Mendes' 1917
A British horse sunk in the mud of Flanders, Belgium, during one of the five Battles of Ypres

History of horses during WWI
World War 1. Somme Offensive. Canadian soldiers fighting at Courcellette, Sept. 15, 1916, around the sugar refinery

Battle of the Somme Facts

British tanks in World War One, circa 1917-18

5 technological innovations from WW1
Mohawk Indian troops standing to attention

How the British Empire made WW1 possible
Soldiers wearing WW1 gas masks

10 little known facts about WW1
Poppy flower

The Poets and Poetry of WW1