of which the siege of Sarajevo was one of the most significant elements. In fact, it was the longest siege of its kind in ...

Poppies grew on the barren fields of World War One and are used to remember soldiers ... Madame Guerin liked the poem so much that she started to sell poppies for charity in America.Another ...

Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...

BBC One Opening the World War One commemoration season on the BBC ... He explores how, as the casualties began to mount, a movement grew in Britain to get them home. Fergal also meets the children ...

(p. 1). Mombauer’s first chapter opens with the line “The debate about the causes of the First World War began even before the first shots had been fired,” (p. 14) and proceeds to sift through all of ...