WW1 - THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 "THE RAGE OF MEN”

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  Andy Cowan

  

  First World War poets: everything you wanted to know

  historyextra.com - Ellie Cawthorne

  Professor Catriona Pennell answers listener questions on the poetry of the First World War Ellie Cawthorne Subs offer How much has our view of the First …

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  Andy Cowan

  

  Misfire – It was failures by statesmen, not an assassin’s bullets, that triggered the First World War - MilitaryHistoryNow.com

  militaryhistorynow.com - By Paul Miller-Melamed 

  By Paul Miller-Melamed SHOT THROUGH THE neck, choking on his own blood with his beloved wife dying beside him, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to …

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  Andy Cowan

  

  The Wartime Origins of Winnie-the-Pooh

  thecollector.com - Turner Collins

  With his first book in 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh would enter into the lives of children throughout the English-speaking world. As time went on, his …

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  Andy Cowan

  

  Kicking the Ottomans out of Europe: The First Balkan War

  thecollector.com - Turner Collins

  The Ottoman Empire was a massive multi-ethnic powerhouse that lasted for just over six hundred years. At its peak, the empire encompassed territories …

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  Andy Cowan

  

  Remains of First World War soldiers given military burial in Flanders

  Newschain - The Newsroom

  British and Canadian authorities have given seven soldiers killed more than a century ago in the First World War a full military burial after their …

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  Andy Cowan

  

  Opinion: The dangerous mythology of Franz Ferdinand's assassination

  historyextra.com - Emma Mason

  The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 has been so manipulated and mythologised that it’s time we spoke of a ‘Sarajevo myth’, …