The killing ground

I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w

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On a beautiful summer’s morning almost 110 years ago, men of the British Army stepped out into no-man’s land at 7.30am. It was 1 July 1916, and the start of what was then called ‘The Big Push’. With h

Victoria Taylor Publisher: Head of Zeus Web: www.headofzeus.com ISBN: 9-781-8045-4999-5 Hardback: 432 pages RRP: £25.00 From the late 1970s up until the 1990s, the reviewer regularly interviewed and c