The seizing of Europe’s bells
The bells that rang out across allied nations after the First World War ended what for many had been a four-year silence enforced by regulation
Stephen J. Thorne
October 8, 2025
The bells that rang out across allied nations after the First World War ended what for many had been a four-year silence enforced by regulation
Continued from “Front lines,” Sept. 24, 2025. Three years later to the day of Captain William Arthur Peel Durie’s death, a soldier wrote Durie’s mother
In the dark of a summer’s night in 1925, four shadowy figures—two women and two men—stole into the Loos British Cemetery in Loos-en-Gohelle, France, dug
Mention parasol and one might think of Mary Poppins floating among the chimneys of London or Impressionistic images of dainty Victorian-era ladies at refined picnics
Nestled in a nondescript corner at the intersection of two pathways in the commune of Gaudiempré, southwest of Arras in northern France, there lies a
As far as war monuments go, the Canadian National Vimy Memorial is widely regarded to be among the most magnificent, if not the most. It
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