Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. All are examples of the kind of work featured in Stand To!
How a Stockton man won the VC
Ted Cooper writes how his granda won the VC. Edward Cooper was born in Stockton on the 4th May 1896. He left scho…
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An Irish Soldier in the British Army
Survivors of 47 Brigade going back to rest area after the Battle of Guillemont-Ginchy, September 1916. Image: clarelib…
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Romania
Romania By Harald Heppner and Rudolf Gräf World War I afforded the first opportunity for modern Romania to parti…
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Harold Mugford VC
Harold Mugford was born at 149 Keetons Road, Bermondsey, London on 31 August 1894, the second son of Richard John Sanfor…
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Henry May VC
Henry May VC was one of 5 servicemen to win a VC on the Western Front in October 1914 and will have a commemorative pavi…
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The most successful British Bomber Aircraft of The First World War
An introduction to British Aircraft of the First World War If one were asked to choose a paradigm to represent the effe…
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Charles Kuentz - Germany's last surviving veteran of the Great War
Ninety years after he was conscripted, Germany's only surviving veteran of the Great War talks to Tony Paterson in Alsac…
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Mapping The Front
The Great War has left a colossal legacy of grief. Almost all those who survived the war have now passed away, but their…
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Visiting and Revisiting the battlefields, 1919-1938 by Prof. Mark Connelly.
Tourists in Ypres, Whit Monday, 1919. Image from the Imperial War Museum collection (c) Jeremy Gordon-Smith By Prof.…
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Some Prominent British Generals and their Fortunes in The Great War
Introduction At first sight, the neophyte amateur war historian may find the nomenclature of the war of 1914-1918 …
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Vera Brittain - The Militant Pacifist: Misconceptions of her Importance in Military H…
By Dr. Phylomena H. Badsey Originally published by the Journal of the Centre for First World Studies. Posted here …
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Field Marshal Haig assessed by John Terraine
Field Marshall Haig Essay on Leadership and War (John Terraine. First published in Stand To! Number 26, Summer 1989 …
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