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Inside Kherson war trenches as Ukrainians find 'cannon fodder' Russians left behind

At one freshly-dug First World War-style trench, just over a mile from Russian positions, Major Nazar, 38, with the 63rd Mechanised Brigade told the Mirror they come up against Russian conscripts

Daily Mirror · Nov 11, 2022

In Pictures: Armistice Day marked with two-minute silence

The country fell silent at 11am to mark the anniversary of the end of the First World War.

The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2022

Armistice Day: Millions in UK and across world pause to remember war dead

Services were held across the country for the anniversary of the end of the First World War, with a two-minute silence observed at 11am

Evening Standard · Nov 11, 2022

Remembrance Day 2023: Changes to the Poppy Appeal through the years and Remembrance Sunday events

It’s a day when many people across the country come together to remember those who lost their lives in the First World War

Evening Standard · Oct 27, 2022

Red deer, winter walks and malt whisky: the Scottish Highlands and islands through the eyes of local people

Guidebooks and travel blogs will get you so far, but there’s nothing quite like being told by a local to visit an ancient tomb or a hidden first world war relic this autumn and winter

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022

All Quiet on the Western Front review – anti-war nightmare of bloodshed and chaos

Teenage boys quickly find themselves caught up in the ordeal of trench warfare in this German-language adaptation of the first world war novel

The Guardian - UK · Oct 12, 2022

Review: David O. Russell goes to war in 'Amsterdam,' but this historical farce Nether comes together

The title of "Amsterdam," the typically busy and discombulating new movie written and directed by David O. Russell, refers to the events of a memorable Dutch idyll in 1918, toward the end of the First World War. For two wounded American servicemen, Burt Berendsen (Christian Bale) and Harold Woodman (John…

Los Angeles Times · Oct 5, 2022

‘Stories told in the dark’ – haunting visions from the painter who operated on his own genitals

Forrest Bess was attached to a camouflage unit during the second world war before suffering a breakdown. He then began to transcribe his nocturnal visions, with alarming results

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2022

Britain and the US… And the Round of Violence in Iraq

In contrast to its establishment by the British in the early twentieth century, the second effort to establish an Iraqi state, made this century by the US, was chaotic and not based on a vision for how to build it. There is an immense difference in scale between the two…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 31, 2022

Historic York firm secures £3m funding for combined heat and power technology project

Allium Energy began trading as F D Todd & Sons at the end of the First World War

Birmingham Post · Aug 24, 2022