I doubt whether there are many people in this country, of any age, who are unaware that this year marks the centenary of the First World War.  Newspapers, magazines, radio and television are full of articles and programmes marking the fact, and that’s before you take account of the book industry where, I believe, around…

21 Jan 2014 For nearly all of us, I think, the words ‘war cemetery’ call up a very particular image to the mind. Row upon row of perfectly aligned pristine white headstones on a flat landscape stretching a huge distance; the graves separated by immaculately maintained grass and, here and there, individual floral tributes placed by…