First World War

British from the 11th Brigade 4th division and German soldiers at Ploegsteert in Belgium on Christmas Day 1914. (Photo by The Art Archive/Alamy)

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Did the First World War Christmas truce football match really happen?

Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele

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The forgotten triumphs of Passchendaele

The Cunard liner Lusitania

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How did Britain react to the sinking of the Lusitania?

Charles I's great weakness was that he made a strict distinction between his role as king, in which he could not compromise, and his personal role, which was entirely pleasant and courteous, says Sean Lang. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

8 of the nicest kings in history

A scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old', showing how film director Peter Jackson digitally remastered footage of the First World War. (Photo courtesy of THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ WingNut Films/ Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

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“There was no feeling sorry for themselves”: director Peter Jackson on the soldiers of the First World War

London crowds celebrating the signing of the armistice at the end of the First World War.

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5 things you need to know about Armistice Day

Marshal Foch and his accompaniment leaving Compiègne in order to inform the French government in Paris about the Armistice agreement with Germany. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Where was the Armistice signed?

11th November 1918: An army lorry in a London street on Armistice Day, carrying jubilant passengers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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11 November 1918: The day the world turned upside down

A British officer stands alongside two of his Japanese counterparts in 1914 in Tsingtao (now Qingdao). Japanese troops played a key role in the capture of that strategic German concession in north-east China. (Photo by Getty Images)

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First World War: beyond the western front

Black and white image of Russian soldiers using a canon

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Trial by fire: how a fortress siege changed the course of World War One

A Russian battery at the siege of the Austrian-Hungarian fortress of Przemysl, 1 Oct 1914. (Photo by Hulton Archive-Getty Images)

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The Fortress: An epic battle of World War I

Britons. Join Your Country's Army! (Photo by Alfred Leete/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

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The death of Kitchener: a World War One mystery

Queen Victoria, her husband Prince Albert, and their nine children.

Q&A Could Queen Victoria have prevented World War I?

South Vietnam 1967: Battle weary U.S. soldiers pause for a moment's rest after some of the bloodiest fighting of the Vietnam War (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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War trauma

US soldiers in Vietnam

From the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam and Iraq: a history of war trauma