More tales from the bookshelf
Mature Times reviews Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain Approaching the Armistice on 11th November got me thinking about the amount of iconic literat ...
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New WW1 film brings history to life
The internationally acclaimed filmmaker Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit) has been commissioned to create a new film about the First World War. Oscar Winner Peter Jackson’s film has ex ...
Children at war
At the start of the First World War, Britain was the only major power involved without a large-scale standing army, with an armed force of approximately 700,000 soldiers. In sharp contrast, the German ...
Photographer Edith Tutor-Hart’s double life is revealed in this engrossing documentary
Joyce Glasser reviews Tracking Edith (July 27, 2018) Cert. PG, 91 min. Forget TV’s Who Do You Think You Are? When American-born biographer and filmmaker Peter Stephan Jungk starts investigating his gr ...