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At this distance in time, and with our knowledge of the slaughterhouses that First War battlefields rapidly became, it is hard understand the universal joy with which the war’s outbreak,…

The story is told of a British general who, while out riding with his staff, came across naked soldiers bathing in a river. Turning to one of his officers, the…

Within months, of the outbreak of WW1, the hospital wards of all the combat nations were filled with soldiers who, although physically uninjured, were blind, deaf, dumb, or mute, paralysed,…

  Thanks to the home movies of Hitler’s long-time mistress, Eva Braun, millions are familiar with the private face of Adolf Hitler. His private voice is, however, much less well-known.…