WW1 Centenary

By Shanny Basar

Marking the anniversary of World War 1: 1914 - 1918

Books
Decolonizing Commemoration: New War Art | by Maya Jaggi | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com - Maya Jaggi
What sounds like a mechanical air-raid siren morphs into a human cry of loss at the start of The Head & the Load, a powerful ninety-minute stage …
Books
From Roth to Le Guin: top 10 novels about the first world war
The Guardian - Daniel Mason
I had not intended to write a first world war novel. But the physician protagonist of my initial project, set in interwar Vienna, needed a backstory. So I sought in it the war and, like countless others
Culture (UK)
Home Front: 100 years on, BBC's groundbreaking four-year experiment brought real people to life
The Conversation UK - Richard Brooks
When the debut of the BBC Radio Four World War I drama Home Front aired in August 2014, it was described as “the most ambitious radio drama project …
World News
Armistice Day: victory and beyond
The Guardian - Neal Ascherson
In spite of all the valour and victories, the war had knocked much of the stuffing out of Britain’s leadership When the armistice came, “at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month”, Cambridge made
Angela Merkel
Lessons from history 100 years after the Armistice
The Economist
SHORTLY AFTER 2am on November 11th 1918 a train came to a halt in a wood in Compiègne, near Paris. A second train pulled up on a nearby track. After …
Charlie Chaplin
“They Shall Not Grow Old” brings archive footage to stirring life
The Economist
“FOR THE FALLEN”, written by Laurence Binyon in honour of the British Expeditionary Force and published in September 1914, contains one of the …
Balfour Declaration
Palestine and Britain: forgotten legacy of World War I that devastated the Middle East
The Conversation UK - James Rodgers
For those of us of an age to have known only peace in Western Europe, the centenary of the end of World War I is a an opportunity to learn something …
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s president lays a wreath at the Cenotaph which is very fitting. It is a shame though that
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The impact of the First World War in some British towns was nothing less than catastrophic. This photograph is an area of
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The emotional final scene of Blackadder Goes Forth still gets us every time… https://t.co/jtDCjHjE8d
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Just thinking about art of commemoration, @1418NOW has been brilliant, from @tompiperdesign & @PaulCumminsMBE poppies to
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Danny Boyle
Beach images across the UK honour World War One soldiers
bbc.co.uk
Giant portraits of soldiers who died in World War One have been etched across UK beaches to mark 100 years since the conflict ended. Volunteers were given stencils and rakes to create the large-scale The
Military
On the 100th anniversary of the US entry to World War I, these vivid colorized photos bring the Great War to life
Business Insider - Christopher Woody
On July 28, 1914, a month after a Bosnian-Serb assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on a street corner in Sarajevo, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia, beginning World War I.
Royal Family
More than 10,000 march in London thanking those who gave their lives in First World War
metro.co.uk - Kate Buck
More than 10,000 people have marched past the Cenotaph today in thanks to those who gave their lives in the First World War. The ‘People’s Procession’ …
Military History
World War One: Six extraordinary Indian stories
bbc.co.uk
Approximately 1.5 million Indian soldiers served in World War One - and more than 74,000 of them lost their lives. It's 100 years since the armistice of 11 November 1918 ended what was once called "the
Film (UK)
They Shall Not Grow Old review – an utterly breathtaking journey into the trenches
The Guardian - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
There’s a familiar mantra that computers have somehow taken the humanity out of cinema. In an age when it’s possible to conjure spectacular action from digital effects, many modern movies have developed
'Limbers carrying up ammunition at sunset', Ypres in 1917 by Frank Hurley, before the bellowing anger cleaved the woods.
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World War I Issue - The Atlantic
The Atlantic
Essays Instability in Ukraine, chaos in Syria, conflict in the East China Sea—the trigger points for World War III are in place. The Allies would not have won without doughboys, materiel, and money. The
United States
The Lesson of the Great War
The Atlantic - Eliot A. Cohen
A century after the guns fell silent, the United States risks replicating the errors of the past. There are the wars we remember, and the wars that seem to drift away. Korea is one such, but at least is
Great Britain
What If the Allies Had Lost World War I?
The Atlantic - David Frum
To understand the conflict’s legacy, consider what might have been. In the spring of 2015, my undergraduate son and I drove the length of the 1914-1918 Western Front, from the British battlefields in through
The Chelsea Pensioners make their entrance at the #FestivalofRemembrance @RHChelsea and are given a guard of honour by @UKScouting
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News
Remembrance Day: Queen at special Westminster Abbey service
bbc.co.uk
The Queen has attended a remembrance service at Westminster Abbey for those killed and wounded in conflict, as the UK marks 100 years since Armistice Day. Earlier, millions of people joined in a two-minute
Books
Jackie Kay on Arthur Roberts: the black Scottish first world war soldier who felt forgotten
The Guardian - Jackie Kay
Arthur Roberts was a black Scottish soldier who survived the first world war and ended his days in an old people’s home in Glasgow. His name would have been lost to us were it not for a remarkable sequence
Armistice Day
Armistice Day: Macron urges world leaders to reject nationalism
BBC News - BBC World
French President Emmanuel Macron has urged world leaders marking the centenary of the World War One Armistice to reject nationalism. Addressing leaders in Paris - including US President Donald Trump and
Film (UK)
'The faces are unbelievable': Peter Jackson on They Shall Not Grow Old
The Guardian - Luke Buckmaster
The BBC TV premiere and cinema release of They Shall Not Grow Old, the first world war documentary created by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, will mark a high point of this weekend’s Remembrance
World News
'It was very hard for him': relatives remember first world war survivors
The Guardian - Caroline Davies
Their stories will endure, safeguarded by their descendants. One hundred years after the guns fell silent on the western front, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and other relatives of those
They Shall Not Grow Old, the First World War film by Peter Jackson is airing on @BBCTwo at 9.30pm on 11 Nov #ArmisticeDay
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Military History
War and peat: how bog moss helped save thousands of lives in World War I
The Conversation UK - Richard Lindsay
At 07:30 on July 1, 1916, a private in the British army – let’s call him Tommy Atkins – scrambled out of a trench in front lines and advanced across …
British Library
How the First World War ended
bl.uk
• Article created by: David Stevenson • Theme: Origins, outbreak and conclusions • Published: 7 Nov 2018 Professor David Stevenson explains how the war came …