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At Century Journal, David Hargreaves will continue his week-by-week account of the First World War, and the life that went around it. Please do visit, to stay in touch with…

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Apr 1, 2017

Beelzebub

What is it about men? And what was it about the British?

David Hargreaves in Century Magazine

Mar 24, 2017

Hooligans, armed with rifles

The dangers of believing history written by the victors are considerable.

David Hargreaves in Century Magazine

Mar 19, 2017

And so it goes

THERE WAS NO CLARITY — only danger and growing desperation.

David Hargreaves in Century Magazine

Mar 14, 2017

Absolutely friendless

SOMETIMES, THERE WERE too many narratives. Sometimes, it is better to think of men and women, rather than whole nations…

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David Hargreaves in Century Magazine

Mar 2, 2017

The Sacred Spark

WE CAN SEE what they could not. Russia was on the skids.

David Hargreaves in Century Magazine

Feb 26, 2017

A family man

ONE HUNDRED YEARS ON, it remains a struggle to enter into the mind of the last of the Tsars.

David Hargreaves in Century Magazine

Feb 18, 2017

Loose tongue ?

ONE WOULD NOT have called Sir Douglas Haig a slave to the media. Even so — this week saw him faced with what looked like a classic…

David Hargreaves in Century Magazine

Feb 11, 2017

Ice Station

IT DID NOT require a great offensive to spawn terror and misery.

David Hargreaves in Century Magazine

Feb 5, 2017

Bad call by the bean counters

WE HAVE TO be careful. History becomes all-too-easily whatever it is the victorious party decides.

In fact, very careful. This was the week that Germany announced the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare. Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg gave the…

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