Henry Allingham is the last British serviceman alive to have volunteered for active duty in the First World War and is one of very few people who can directly r

Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillus

In the early days of the First World War, Lord Kitchener made his famous appeal for volunteers to join the New Army. Men flocked to recruiting offices to enlist

This interesting book looks at the British army of 1914, an army of conscripts and volunteers. The effect of this mobilization on the social and political clima

Until recently James Beatson was one of the millions of forgotten soldiers of the Great War. But after 90 years his diary has been rediscovered, perfectly prese