centenary
Two Gunshots to the Head Couldn't Kill This British Soldier
Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was the one-handed, eye-patched army officer whose story reads more like a Rowan Atkinson creation than a real serving soldier. He was an impossibly lucky—or unlucky, depending on how you see it—caricature of British resolve.
Britain's WWI Centenary Is Bound to Be a Disaster
The government already have Europe squabbling over the right way to remember the war.
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