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Rare First World War naval signal book found in Oxfam shop
Lead-lined printed work was discovered among a box of donations over 100 years after it was meant to have been destroyed on official orders
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The West cannot let Putin open a second front in Europe
The Balkans, oft-neglected, are a ripe prospect for Russia’s aspirations, and are becoming increasingly febrile and dangerous
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How the carnage on the Eastern Front transformed the First World War
Nick Lloyd’s exhaustive and meticulous history lays out the far-reaching consequences of the fighting in central and south-eastern Europe
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Rise of the influencer dog puts war hero breed at risk
The Irish terrier, which ran messages during the First World War, has been put on Kennel Club’s vulnerable list after falling out of fashion
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‘It’s very bad art’: how the booming market in Hitler’s atrocious paintings inspired a new play
Found a Führer’s daubing in your attic? A new play at the Young Vic, Nachtland, imagines what happens next
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In all my years of concert going, nothing can top the premiere of Elgar’s ‘unfinished’ symphony
It is one of the great symphonies in the English canon – and its first performance was a historic and deeply moving moment
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This error-strewn book does a disservice to First World War history
Rick Stroud’s I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles, about women who resisted the Germans, tells us little new and much that’s wrong
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The West is falling into Putin's trap
His master strategy is to give Nato problems and to deflect its main effort from supporting Ukraine
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The untold story of Lanoe Hawker VC, Britain’s first ace fighter pilot
A new film tells of the real-life heroism of a First World War pioneer who inspired his peers and left a legacy of innovation
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How Germans sank their own U-boat so ‘no Englishman’ would set foot on it
3D mapping finds evidence submarine was scuttled ‘in act of defiance’ off Heligoland after First World War
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The savage drama of the First World War, retold for children
Michael Foreman’s novella The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha, rightly republished, tells of the (real-life) bond between a seaman and a tortoise
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Sir Frank Sanderson, businessman behind Battle of the Somme museum at Lutyens’s Memorial for the Missing – obituary
A museum at the hallowed site was controversial, but he raised £700,000 from over 2,300 donors, many of them pensioners who sent in £5 notes
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At this rate, wearing a Remembrance poppy will soon be a thing of the past
If two thirds of British adults under 40 don’t even know the date of the Armistice, this solemn tradition is surely doomed
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Rupert Brooke was a foolish and naïve idealist. So why does his poetry survive?
Remembrance Sunday brings to mind the poet’s war sonnets, the beauty of which outshines their dated sentiments
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Two thirds of young people don’t know what Remembrance Day commemorates
Results of survey labelled ‘damning indictment of history teaching in our schools’ by historian and Tory peer
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Harrowing First World War battle footage brought back to life – warts and all
Even camera shakes kept in the Imperial War Museum's restoration of the Battle of Arras film from 1917 to preserve its authenticity
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The island where you’d eat 36 eggs and 18 seabirds per day
How the inhabitants of remote Hebridean St Kilda lived off the land – and, braving incredible danger, the cliffs
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This ‘enfant terrible’ was too radical for Elgar – now he’s ripe for revival
Haunted by memories of the trenches, Arthur Bliss injected English pastoral music with a highly expressive strain of modernism
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Minefield rescue inspired by my great-great-grandfather
Jack Knight, a British military volunteer and former mine clearer, rescued Ukrainian soldiers at risk of bleeding out from the battlefield
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‘It’s the most moving experience you’ll ever have on foreign shores’
As the First World War sites of France and Belgium finally earn World Heritage Site status, here are 10 battlefields and memorials to visit
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Love and hope ‘help you grow taller’
Average height falls in harder times but increases again with prosperity and joy, a study suggests
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Putin is developing a sinister new plan for victory
Moscow’s dealings with North Korea suggest an attempt to repeat a version of the 1918 Kaiserschlacht
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The era of the tank is far from over
Like all military capability, it is about how you use it. The Russians are doing so extremely poorly
