The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

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As a century passes after the end of the First World War, historians are naturally hard-pressed to write anything new about what is also known as the Great War, a war which destroyed empires, ...