Monthly Archives: November 2017

I remember how, only a few weeks ago as a train thundered through France, a woman sitting opposite to me in the dining car said “The English”. I looked through… Read more »

The Great War did not officially end until June 1919 with the final signing of the Treaty of Versailles. As part of the plan to mark the war’s end with… Read more »

The familiar rituals of remembrance associated with November 11: the sale of poppies, the service at the Cenotaph, or at war memorials all over the country did not exist when… Read more »