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Sarajevo: The shot that echoed around the world
The next four years promise to be very exciting. For those of us fascinated, dare I say obsessed, with the first world war there should be a plethora of films, documentaries and news reports to fuel...
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The women of world war one
The Abbey of Royaumont is a charming, peaceful and beautiful thirteenth century building thirty kilometers north of Paris. Now it serves as a museum, a hotel and a cultural centre but during the first...
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British army kit in 1914 and today
British army kit in now and in 1914 British army kit in 1914 and today: Last week I reported to Sir John Moore Barracks in Winchester for a fascinating assignment. Along with colleague Robert Hall we...
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Forgotten Soldiers of Empire
I’ve just finished watching the first episode of the “Forgotten Soldiers” – the BBC’s new documentary series examining the stories of non-europeans who fought and died in the Great war. I’m from a...
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Buried at last: 15 soldiers laid to rest at Y-Farm cemetery
A surprisingly warm October sun bathed the graveyard in its orange light. Between rows of white headstones a crowd was gathered to watch the burial of fifteen British soldiers whose bodies had been...
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Wellington’s elite: The 5/60th rifles in the Peninsular
The men in green worked their way forward in pairs, firing fast and accurately as they skirmished towards the French entrenchment. Thick smoke quickly obscured the battlefield as the French returned...
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The WW1 Christmas truce: The centenary
Reenactors in the trenches at Plugstreet, December 2014 On Christmas day 1914 30,000 British troops put down their weapons, emerged from their trenches and met the German’s in no-man’s land. They...
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Uniform and weapons of the 60th Rifles in the Peninsular war
This is the second of my two part video series about the 5/60th Rifles in the Peninsular war of 1808-1814. In this film Steve Davies and Peter Wright of the Midlands based reenactors talk me through...
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The battle of Rolica: A chapter from my new eBook
My book “Beating the invincibles” is finally finished and available to subscribers as a free download (If you are not already subscribed then please fill in the sign up from to your right of the...
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Guerillas of Tsavo: visiting the first world war battlefields in Kenya
James Willson, author of “Guerillas of Tsavo” The first world war in Kenya and East Africa is a theatre of the war almost completely forgotten. Before visiting the battlefields I knew almost nothing...
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