Remembrance Day

History, Music, Music Mondays

Music Mondays: War Songs

November 7, 2011, By Davina Choy
World War One Songs

For Remembrance Day, we present a sample of songs from the First World War, each presenting a different aspect of war.

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History, In Search of Lost Time

Vimy Ridge: Bloody Easter

November 7, 2011, By James Marsh
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The Great War was the infantryman’s war, and rarely has so much been asked of such men and been done so well. They earned the battle cry “Vimy Ridge!”

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History

In Flanders Fields

November 7, 2011, By James Marsh
In Flanders Fields

Within months of publication, John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” became the most popular poem of the war.

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History, In Search of Lost Time

Passchendaele: Remembrance of Things Past

November 7, 2011, By James Marsh
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Perhaps no battle agitates the memory as much as the one in Flanders Fields in 1917, at a place called Passchendaele.

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