Behind Their Lines

Many of the posts on this blog have begun as secondhand bookshop finds: worn, slim volumes that bear witness to a war that changed the world...

British soldiers at the Somme, Oct. 1916 © IWM (Q 1580) Historian Paul Fussell, writing in The Great War and Modern Memory, describ...

"It's a long way to Tipperary" is remembered as a song of the First World War, although it was composed before the war...