How the victorious British Army of November 1918 became the defeated British Army of 1940 is the subject of Victory to Defeat. This is a story about failure: national, military, civilian, ...

The inscription reads: In memory of British Prisoners of War who died in Germany 1914-1918. A tribute from the American Ambassador in Berlin 1914-1917 The main figures in the window show King Henry VI ...

In 1917 he was made an officer and became the first black officer to lead white British soldiers into battle. In 1918 the German army was making a last effort to win the war. On 25 March ...

Jeremy Paxman reads the words of British army commander General Sir Douglas Haig in April 1918, telling his men to fight on until the end, as we see archive footage of battlefield devastation.