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World War I Diary Recounting The Horrific Battle Of The Somme Found In The U.K.
A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...
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'The Unkillable Soldier' Who Kept Fighting Despite Losing an Eye and Hand in World War I
At the turn of the 20th century, Adrian Carton de Wiart was struggling academically. While considering whether to continue pursuing a law degree at the University of Oxford, he desperately sought ...
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Oxford college to honour WW1 German soldiers
The Queen's College currently has 121 names on its World War One memorial but that omits ... A proposal to add five new names - including three German soldiers - follows a similar move by the ...
Germany is permanently stationing troops in another country for the first time since World War II
Germany is putting thousands of troops in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia. It's the first long-term deployment ...
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First World War German howitzer found buried at the PNE
Canadian soldiers took many German artillery pieces home as “war trophies” after the First World War. Almost all have disappeared. But more than a century later, one has turned up three metres ...