Armistice Day, November 11
Eleventh hour, eleventh day, eleventh month
1918 – 2011
Armistice Day, 2011
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- Paris in the early days of the war: August 16, 1914 — (Charles Inman Barnard)
- Paris in the early days of the war: August 15, 1914 — (Charles Inman Barnard)
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- Paris in the early days of the war: August 12, 1914 — (Charles Inman Barnard)
- Paris in the early days of the war: August 12, 1914 — (M.E. Clarke)
- Paris in the early days of the war: August 11, 1914 — (Charles Inman Barnard)
- Paris in the early days of the war: August 10, 1914 — Charles Inman Barnard
- Paris in the early days of the war: August 9, 1914 — (Charles Inman Barnard)
- Paris in the early days of the war: August 8, 1914 — (Charles Inman Barnard)
- Paris in the early days of the war: August 8, 1914 — (M.E. Clarke)
- Paris in the early days of the war: August 7, 1914 — (Charles Inman Barnard)
- Paris in the early days of the war, August 6, 1914 — (Charles Inman Barnard)
- Paris in the early days of the war, August 5, 1914 — (Charles Inman Barnard)
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- Paris in the early days of the war: August 3, 1914 — (Charles Inman Barnard)
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Great War links
- Alan Seeger … original documents & photographs
- American music goes to war … World War I as illustrated on sheet music
- American volunteers in the French Foreign Legion, 1914-1918 … biographies, units, uniforms, etc …
- Army Art of World War I … US Army Center of Military History
- Art of the First World War … one hundred paintings to commemorate the end of WWI
- Behind Their Lines: Poetry of the Great War
- Edmund Blunden at war
- Experiences of an English soldier … Harry Lamin’s letters from the First World War
- Forgotten Heroes: North Africans & the Great War, 1918-1919
- Francis Ledwidge Museum … dedicated to the Irish poet killed in the 3rd Battle of Ypres
- Friends of the Dymock Poets
- Ghosts in the Trenches: Soldier Apparitions of World War I
- History & Lore of the Sixth Machine Gun Battalion … 4th Brigade of Marines, 2nd Division (Regular), A.E.F.
- Ivor Gurney … A web journal of Philip Lancaster’s work on the Gloucester composer-poet
- Jeanne d'Arc in the First World War … images, pilgrims, memorials
- King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum located in Lancaster, England
- Kriegstagebuch: the war diary of Dieter Finzen
- Poetry of the First World War … information on war poets from 13 nations
- Society of the Military Horse
- St Mihiel Tripwire … online newsletter of the Great War Society
- The Chipilly Ridge Sonnets of John Allan Wyeth … six sonnets from the Battle of Amiens, on the Somme, August 8-9, 1918
- The Doughboy Center … The Story of the American Expeditionary Forces
- The Effects of War: how one Illinois farm couple’s experience of the First World War inspired a cycle of regionalist poems
- The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
- The Gallipoli Association
- The Great War Society
- The War Poetry of John Allan Wyeth … changes forever the landscape of First World War literature
- The Western Front Association
- The Wilfred Owen Association
- Tom Morgan's Hellfire Corner
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