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The Meaning of the First World War
World War I gave rise to a heated century-long debate about its causes. In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson surveys this ...
Brave West Lothian women who made explosives for war efforts remembered
A wreath of handmade yellow poppies were laid at the former site of the munitions factory in Linlithgow on Remembrance Day ...
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When the ‘Sun Tobacco Fund’ Rushed to the Trenches of World War I a Taste of Home
The pack or two a soldier might carry in his pocket would be burned up during “the many lazy days devoted to sailing across ...
How a secret weapon built in Cincinnati helped end World War II
Did you know a tiny device that helped end World War II was made right here in Cincinnati? A mission so secret the people ...
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Baseball and the Great War
Leading the parades would be the High School band playing patriotic songs followed by the World War I guys. At the time, the Great War vets were probably only 67 or 68 years old, but their faces ...
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What do we mean by Decolonising Remembrance?
NADJA LOVADINOV explains why the Peace Pledge Union is launching a new initiative to make sure that the West's colonialist past and present — and its victims — are at the heart of remembrance ...