First world war
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21 Dec 2011:Erdogan fury as French parliament due to vote on making it illegal to deny 1915 Armenian massacre was genocide
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It was only when he turned 100 that the veteran of Ypres began to speak about the horrors he had seen
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Born in 1896, Allingham was the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving first world war servicemen
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30 May 2012: Ragtime is staged with all the brilliance you'd expect of the man, Timothy Sheader, who has won the Olivier award for best musical revival three years running, writes Michael Billington
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24 May 2012:
Nicolaus Mills: His classic study, The Great War and Modern Memory, was rooted in his own bitter experience of loss and waste in combat
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21 May 2012: Other lives: Senior curator at the Imperial War Museum whose research and knowledge contributed to many books and television programmes about the two world wars
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23 Apr 2012:
Nicholas Watt: Downing Street and Treasury wrong to think that François Hollande would marginalise France in Europe, to the benefit of Britain
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19 Mar 2012:
Hebrew University releases initial 2,000 documents including unseen letters, postcards and research notes
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11 Feb 2012: When Jonathan Croall researched the life of his matinee idol father, he was shocked by what he found – and at last the reason for his emotional reserve
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3 Feb 2012: Letters: Born in 1900, my father secretly enlisted in a cavalry regiment in 1914, only telling his parents where he was by sending them a photo taken in Egypt dated January 1915
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2 Feb 2012: Philip Hoare: We may still be suffering a collective shell shock from the first world war, using fiction to obscure, as much as reveal, the past
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22 Jan 2012: It's taken 20 years to reach the screen, but this glorious tale of love and war has been worth the wait, writes Sam Wollaston
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22 Jan 2012: Expert archaeologist helped drama producers make exact model of underground network
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