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I died in hell - they called it Passchendaele
Dismembered soldiers sucked into cesspools of mud. Shattered tree trunks and the waft of poison gas hovering over the wounded who were awaiting their fates on the scarred soil of Flanders Fields.
Passchendaele's pointless butchery: was it worth it?
Some military specialists now argue the battles of Passchendaele were not only necessary but achieved some key Allied goals that were worth the cost.
Passchendaele: when commanding officers wept publicly at the horrors their soldiers endured
Soldiers no longer thought of the enemy as wearing a uniform. It was the mud, deep and devouring. Back in England, rhetoric was directed at the “evil Hun”; no one mentioned the mud.
Why was hugely popular women's football banned after World War One?
Women's football was huge during World War One, drawing crowds of 53,000 even after the war had ended. So why did it disappear so dramatically, asks Gemma Fay.
Heathcote Williams RIP
Heathcote Williams, poet, playwright, essayist, lyricist, actor, artist, magician, political activist and much else besides, died 1 July 2017
Not despair, more terrible than terror: why British soldiers mutinied in 1917
Etaples was a notorious British army base camp for soldiers on their way to the front, whether raw recruits from England or battle-weary veterans.
The Canary Girls: How the munition workers were turned yellow by the war
Canary Girls, stained yellow by toxic chemicals, risked life and limb to supply ammunition to the frontline.
How World War I shaped the course of the black experience in the twentieth century
World War I brought about tremendous change for African Americans and their place in American society.
