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Gott mit Uns
My wanderings now focus and end at two small tracts of land that were bequeathed to Germany after the First World War by its former enemies, Belgium and France. Understandably, after the anguish of...
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The doughboys who stayed over there
After the First World War, a stream of American visitors came to France to see the old Western Front. The first large-scale national pilgrimage was that made by the American Legion in Autumn, 1927 when...
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Kipling finds the words
In direct contrast to American practice, repatriation was not an option for British and Commonwealth dead. Even as the First World War raged, thoughts turned to the provision of permanent cemeteries...
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France remembers her children
In 1993 an early stage of the 3,700 km Tour de France passed over the forested heights that rise above the river Meuse near Verdun. Traditionally this remarkable sporting event is noisy and exuberant...
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