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15 June 2014 12:00 AM
Missile-maker Käte Kestien recalls the tough conditions endured by German women workers
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: The Great Fire of Salonika
13 June 2014 06:00 PM
Ottoman Empire (Greece), 18 August 1917: One of the most destructive incidents of the entire conflict was probably caused by a kitchen accident. Dr Isabel Emslie Hutton witnessed a conflagration that made 70,000 people homeless
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: All unquiet outside the ‘dying room’
12 June 2014 06:22 PM
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A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: ‘Mad Jack’ takes on the War Office
11 June 2014 06:43 PM
Siegfried Sassoon was decorated for his courage. Then, dramatically, he refused to fight. Andy McSmith on an extraordinary episode of wilful defiance
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: We heard unfamiliar cries… when I asked, ‘Quelle nation?’ one said, ‘Rajput’
10 June 2014 06:31 PM
In an extract from the war diary on which he based ‘Storm of Steel’, Ernst Jünger describes an encounter with the Indian Corps
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: A blast that obliterated 10,000 Germans
09 June 2014 06:48 PM
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A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: The Nivelle offensive - when the lambs refused to march to the slaughter
08 June 2014 10:43 PM
The catastrophic Nivelle offensive saw 40,000 Frenchmen killed in three days. Shortly afterwards, the war’s most significant mutinies began
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: The new British front - in the fields
08 June 2014 12:00 AM
With food imports blocked by German U-boats, the Women's Land Army was vital to Britain's survival
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: ‘We desire no conquest, no dominion. The world must be made safe for democracy’
05 June 2014 07:26 PM
Few US presidents have been so averse to warfare as Woodrow Wilson. And few have changed history so profoundly as he did when he led America into the Europe conflict
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: The munitions workers who made the British government tremble
04 June 2014 06:36 PM
It was a struggle within a struggle, in which industrial unrest was brought to heel only by the direst threats. Chris Blackhurst on a forgotten strike
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: Cries from the heart for a land tortured by war
03 June 2014 07:49 PM
The miseries of the Western Front were exacerbated by environmental destruction on a barely comprehensible scale. Eleanor Rawling reflects on a week when two British artists found ways of expressing the horror
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: The soldier and the letter-writer - a lady with a notepad who gave comfort to the dying
02 June 2014 07:39 PM
May Bradford provided a priceless service, writing letters to loved ones on behalf of injured soldiers
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: Helen Thomas's final farewell to her husband, the poet Edward Thomas - ‘I stood at the gate watching him go. He turned back to wave until the mist and hill hid him...’
01 June 2014 10:25 PM
Millions experienced the emotional turmoil of loved ones leaving for the front line. Few captured the poignancy so heartbreakingly as Helen Thomas, wife of poet Edward Thomas
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: Carnage in the Carpathians - ‘I thought he was dead. I was stepping over him when I felt a tug at my cloak ...’
01 June 2014 12:00 AM
Novelist and poet Hans Carossa on being a German medical officer during the defeat of the Romanians at Turnu Rosu Pass
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: Jailed, strait-jacketed, starved, sentenced to death – the conscientious objectors who refused to fight
26 May 2014 06:25 PM
Jonathan Brown on a landmark trial for Britons whose beliefs prevented them from supporting the war effort
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