The World Today 100 years of generals v politicians: from Ypres to Helmand After the battle, the blame game: The generals ended up being derided for the Great War, but politicians are now held responsible for Iraq and Afghanistan. Is this fair?
The World Today Germany: historians are missing a big opportunity Old allies and old enemies: how other countries remember the Great War and their role in it
The World Today India: a sacrifice that went unrecognized Old allies and old enemies: how other countries remember the Great War and their role in it
The World Today Ireland: from conflict to respect Old allies and old enemies: how other countries remember the Great War and their role in it
The World Today South Africa: troopship sinking lives on in memory Old allies and old enemies: how other countries remember the Great War and their role in it
The World Today Caribbean: racism in the trenches Old allies and old enemies: how other countries remember the Great War and their role in it
The World Today Why we still flock to visit the Somme Nicholas Bird explains why, a century on, books, films and genealogy draw new generations to the cemeteries of the Western Front
The World Today Haunted by the hell of the trenches The historian Christopher Clark has written of the ‘raw modernity’ of the summer crisis of 1914 which led to the First World War. A terrorist incident, taking place at a time when empires are in decline and new powers rising – that is something everybody can understand.
The World Today Chatham House, born from the ashes of war After four years of carnage, international relations could no longer be conducted in secret
The World Today Suffragists who tried to stop the carnage A remarkable congress held in 1915 that still inspires the women’s movement
The World Today Trench technology against gas attack which is still in use today ‘An ecstasy of fumbling’ is how the officer poet Wilfred Owen described the struggle to put on a gas mask. The history of a 1916 invention which continues to save lives
The World Today Paying war's medical bill The cost of balancing the books for life, death and prosthetic limbs will be an issue for decades to come
The World Today Bringing 'War Horse' to a Berlin theatre The translator tells how he tried to retain Michael Morpurgo’s message for a German audience
The World Today USA: Let them have God and guns The liberal elite must give a little to end Washington’s political paralysis
The World Today Egypt: How the Brotherhood failed Egypt’s first freely elected president has been deposed by the army. It’s not a question of religion, it’s about competence
The World Today Canvassing for ‘None of the above’ India leads the way with a new option to bring the disaffected voter back to the ballot box
The World Today A Bayeux Tapestry for the Western Front Journalist and graphic artist Joe Sacco explains what led him to draw a wordless 24-foot depiction of the first day of the Battle of the Somme
The World Today A new profile of Steve Biko, father of Black Consciousness Xolela Mangcu Biko: A Life (IB Taurus, £12.99)
The World Today Playing the game of nations How does Britain win or lose in summitry? Memoirs and biographies offer a glimpse of the working style of three prime ministers
