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First world war

June 2024

  • Louis-Ferdinand Céline in 1915

    Book of the day
    War by Louis-Ferdinand Céline review – disturbing, compelling, incomplete

    A shellshocked soldier in Flanders embarks on a dreamlike journey in this savage fragment of a tale written in the 1930s by the controversial author of Journey to the End of the Night

May 2024

  • Film Still: Pigen Med Nålen (The Girl With The Needle) Directed by Magnus Von Horn

    The Girl With the Needle review – horrific drama based on Denmark’s 1921 baby-killer case

  • The contempt-of-court case against Trudi Warner, for holding a sign about jurors’ rights outside a climate trial, was thrown out by the high court on Monday 22 April.

    The right to acquit based on conscience is rooted in Quaker pacifism

April 2024

  • Members in camp - 1924 Mount Everest Expedition, Back row (left to right) - Andrew Irvine, George Mallory, Edward Norton, Noel Odell and John Macdonald. Front row (left to right) - Edward Shebbeare, Geoffrey Bruce, Howard Somervell and Bentley Beetham, Tibet, China, Mount Everest Expedition 1924. (Photo by J.B. Noel/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

    Heroism, sacrifice, defeat? The enduring mystery of George Mallory’s final Everest attempt

  • Joe and Oliver Cumberland in front of pyramid

    ‘Poor Joe is gone’: the two brothers who fought and died together in Gallipoli

March 2024

  • Black and white portraits of a young man in uniform

    Queensland teenager Claude Fraser got to France too late to fight in 1918 – but a fresh horror awaited

  • Roy Bridge

    Other lives
    Roy Bridge obituary

January 2024

  • Zoe Williams

    Why Boris Johnson – and other men like him – love the idea of conscription

    Zoe Williams
    War memorials might be set in stone, but the debate to bring back conscription only serves those who shamelessly peddle the sacrifice of others as their own writes Zoe Williams
  • Soldiers in a trench during the first world war

    Brief letters
    A skirt served my grandfather well in the first world war

    Brief letters: Men in skirts | Government priorities | The misery of January | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Give pants a chance
  • Merlin the springer spaniel after making his way home.

    The incredible story of Merlin the spaniel shows how little humans know about dogs

    Richard Sugg
    No technology can yet match the uncanny ability that dogs possess to find their way home, says Richard Sugg, author of Kali the Wonder Dog

November 2023

  • George Ruth Jr, talks to Buffalo Soldiers before an event recognizing the legacy of the soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment on Monday.

    US army overturns 1917 convictions of 110 Black soldiers charged with mutiny

  • A Sikh regiment of the Indian army on the march in France in 1914.

    The rituals of Poppy Day are a vital antidote to extreme voices in British society

    Sunder Katwala
  • The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine rehearses at the Forum in Bath.

    Let’s play for peace on Remembrance Sunday

  • Australian prime minister Paul Keating delivers the eulogy to the unknown Australian soldier

    ‘He is one of us’: 30 years on, Paul Keating’s eulogy to the unknown Australian soldier endures

  • First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: Should a pro-Palestine march on Armistice Day be banned?

  • ‘When is it too early to teach your kids about genocide?’ Inside the Imperial War Museum’s harrowing new galleries

October 2023

  • Poppies over the years from The Royal British Legion.

    Royal British Legion gives poppy plastic-free makeover

  • Father and Soldier.

    Father and Soldier review – Omar Sy anchors first world war drama on France’s colonial legacy

September 2023

  • Michael Palin

    Book of the day
    Great-Uncle Harry by Michael Palin review – a soldier’s life

    The actor and comedian reconstructs the story of a relative who died at the Somme to quietly devastating effect

July 2023

  • 32 - Image of Germans fleeing west in 1944 Some of the Germans who fled or were expelled from the East after 1944. Note the handcarts, which became iconic symbols of flight and expulsion.

    Observer book of the week
    Germany in the World by David Blackbourn review – a rich and full-throated account of the past 500 years

    From the intellectual giants who enriched the west to the descent into dictatorship and war, the story of Germany’s global impact – up to its modern rebirth – is told with real verve
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