Somme
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Noticing via this Low Life column that I had trench fever, the Western Front Association treated me to a year’s…
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We arranged to meet the second, more expensive, guide of our Somme battlefield visit at the Thiepval Memorial visitor centre…
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Where the 36th (Ulster) Division attacked at 7.30 a.m. on the first morning of the Battle of the Somme in…
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Phone calls aside, the only human contact I had on my ten-day Somme battlefield tour was with the lady who…
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They are starting to cut the corn. But apart from combine harvesters and tractors, the roads up here on the…
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Bernafay Wood B&B, Somme, France I came up on the TGV yesterday from the Midi to northern France and it…
Action this day
Peter Parker spends 24 hours on the bloodsoaked battlefield of the Somme, scene of the British army’s greatest catastrophe
We’ve proved that mice despise women. But are we sure that dogs love war?
Apparently, mice think that women are useless. I don’t mean that they think women mice are useless — they’re keen…
Misdirected rage
Here it is. Fifty years late. Oh What a Lovely War was originally staged at Stratford East in 1964. It…
