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Soldiers in First World War uniform eat in the trenches
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Life in the trenches during WWI: your essential guide

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A French soldier pictured next to wrecked German lorries.
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Could WW1 have ended in 1916? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Men of the 23rd US Infantry in France, 1918. The Western Front w ould not have even come into existence had the Schlieffen Plan been executed successfully. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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What if… The Schlieffen plan had been successful? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Hew Strachan WL
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Life on Britain’s WW1 home front . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A formal portrait of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig on horseback at Poperinghe. Haig was Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front, 1915 - 1918, 12 September 1917.
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10 WW1 generals you should know about

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Pod Peter Hart WL
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Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Glass of champagne
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How did the French 75 cocktail get its name – and what did it have to do with the Royal Flying Corps? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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First World War podcast episodes

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Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)
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Divided they fell: how war, revolution and sectarianism led to the end of the Ottoman empire . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Alexander Jackson WL
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Football in the First World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Grave of a fallen soldier in World War I
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“Their name liveth for evermore”: the difficult task of locating, identifying and honouring the dead of WW1 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A still from a new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front shows actor Felix Kammerer as a WW1 soldie
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All Quiet on the Western Front inspiration: “As Remarque said, war is not an adventure. There’s nothing glorious about it” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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circa 1923: A Remembrance Day poster issued by the British Legion after World War One, reminding people to wear a Flanders poppy on November 11th. (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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Why we should remember... When the paper poppy became a symbol of remembrance . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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All Quiet on the Western Front film "An ambitious, visceral exploration of life and loss in WW1"

Writer JRR Tolkien smokes a pipe
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JRR Tolkien The making of Middle Earth