First World War

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Douglas Haig (right) watches the stamping of poppies by ex-servicemen, during a visit to the British Legion poppy factory in Richmond, 22 October 1926. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Library Douglas Haig: a postwar revolutionary?

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A poster depicting a First World War soldier musing over having caught a venereal disease while on furlough.(Photo by David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images)

Sex and the First World War: the Tommies who visited brothels

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Field Marshal Harold Alexander, pictured in 1943. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

My history hero Field Marshal Harold Alexander (1891–1969) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Saint-Quentin canal, part of the Germans’ Hindenburg Line, which the Allies broke through on Sunday 29 September 1918. (Photo by 2nd Lt. D McLellan/ IWM via Getty Images)

The Library Why didn’t the Allies march on Berlin in 1918?

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German Spring Offensive: reserve troops in Saint Quentin on their way to the front, March 1918. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

How the war was won . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Was there a guerrilla campaign waged by pro-German elements in what was then German New Guinea during WWI?

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Food and drink on the Somme frontline: the soldier experience

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WWI army rations and the French Revolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Commander Mansfield Smith-Cumming (later head of the British Secret Service), Professor Redwood and Bernard Redwood at the Motor Yacht Club Reliability Trials on Southampton Water, 1907. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

First World War spooks

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The end of World War I . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Matchgirls strike and back to 1918 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.