BBC History - World War One Centenary

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</script>  <div id="main-content" class="index blq-clearfix"> <div id="full-width" class="container-full-width"> <div class="index-date"> <span class="date">13 January 2015</span> <span class="time-text">Last updated at </span><span class="time">17:20 GMT</span> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$render("container-full-width","full-width");</script> <div id="now" class="container-now"> <div class="lead-feature-now"> <h2> <a class="story" rel="published-1419467269153" href="/web/20150215061405/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30433729"> <span class="overlay"> <strong class="headline">How France has forgotten the Christmas Truce</strong> <span class="summary">It remains a part of popular culture in Britain, so why don't people in France talk about it?<span id="dna-comment-count___CPS__30433729" class="gvl3-icon gvl3-icon-comment comment-count"></span></span> </span> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405im_/http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/79818000/jpg/_79818913_christmas-truce_afp.jpg" width="624" height="351" alt="A resin model of a sculpture illustrating the WW1 Christmas Truce football match"/> </a> </h2> </div> <div id="guides-1" class="container-guides "> <div id="guide-content-1" class="guide-content first-group"> <div class="stacked-content-group stacked-overlay-guides"> <div class="guide"> <h3> <a class="story" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-29650147"> <span class="overlay"> <strong class="headline">Malta: A refuge for WW1 wounded</strong> <span class="summary">Malta's hospitals treated over 100,000 soldiers<span id="dna-comment-count___CPS__30338405" class="gvl3-icon gvl3-icon-comment comment-count"></span></span> </span> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405im_/http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/79520000/jpg/_79520149_78288154.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="Malta pushed its medical traditions to earn the name "The Nurse of the Mediterranean""/> </a> </h3> </div> </div> </div> <div id="guide-content-2" class="guide-content "> <div class="stacked-content-group stacked-overlay-guides"> <div class="guide"> <h3> <a class="story" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29895341"> <span class="overlay"> <strong class="headline">A warship that still sails</strong> <span class="summary">A German warship that sails in Africa today<span id="dna-comment-count___CPS__30338407" class="gvl3-icon gvl3-icon-comment comment-count"></span></span> </span> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405im_/http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/79520000/jpg/_79520161_tanzaniaboat.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="The Goetzen and a WWl image of a soldier loading a canon"/> </a> </h3> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$render("container-guides","guides-1");</script> <div id="guides-2" class="container-guides "> <div id="guide-content-3" class="guide-content first-group"> <div class="stacked-content-group stacked-overlay-guides"> <div class="guide"> <h3> <a class="story" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02d20l9"> <span class="overlay"> <strong class="headline">Soldiers and heroes of WW1</strong> <span class="summary">Experts discuss the idea of heroism from Paris<span id="dna-comment-count___CPS__30395533" class="gvl3-icon gvl3-icon-comment comment-count"></span></span> </span> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405im_/http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/79606000/jpg/_79606810_wtctw_paris_e_charlie-taylor_091214.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="War That Changed the World panel in Paris"/> </a> </h3> </div> </div> </div> <div id="guide-content-4" class="guide-content "> <div class="stacked-content-group stacked-overlay-guides"> <div class="guide"> <h3> <a class="story" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p028g3n4"> <span class="overlay"> <strong class="headline">War and revolution in Russia</strong> <span class="summary">Listen as experts discuss WW1's impact<span id="dna-comment-count___CPS__29693781" class="gvl3-icon gvl3-icon-comment comment-count"></span></span> </span> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405im_/http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/78395000/jpg/_78395442_wtctw_st-petersburg_e_em-charlie-taylor_201014.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="War That Changed the World debate in St Petersburg"/> </a> </h3> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$render("container-guides","guides-2");</script> <div id="secondary-top-story-2" class="secondary-top-story"> <h2 class="secondary-top-story-heading">In Depth</h2> <div class="large-image"> <h3 class=" secondary-story-header"> <a class="story" rel="published-1415033902221" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-29719542"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405im_/http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/78730000/jpg/_78730624_beyondthetrenchesstill_281014_em-jonathan-wells.jpg" alt="Beyond the Trenches films"/>Beyond the trenches</a> </h3> <p>Films of how WW1 affected areas across the world <span id="dna-comment-count___CPS__29883204" class="gvl3-icon gvl3-icon-comment comment-count"></span></p> <ul class="see-also"> <li class=" first-child column-1"> <a class="story" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-29719542">The famine of Mount Lebanon</a> </li> <li class=" column-1"> <a class="story" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215061405/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29801553">The siege of Tsingtao</a> </li> <li class=" column-2"> <a class="story" 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