Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ypres is not simply a city but a state of mind – a symbolic place of pilgrimage and memorial to resilience. Though German bombardment ...
A RESEARCH group is offering to take battlefield pilgrims to the Belgian town that has come to symbolise the suffering and sacrifice of the First World War. British soldiers arrived at Ypres in ...
The scene of some of the bloodiest fighting from the First World War will be commemorated by this year’s Tour de France. A hundred years after the start of the global conflict and the first battle of ...
Reporting from Ypres, Belgium — “In Flanders fields,” the old poem says, “the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row.” And in the middle of those fields stands Ypres (pronounced “EE-preh”), ...
A CRITICALLY acclaimed multimedia production featuring renowned Scots performers including Barbara Dickson and Siobhan Miller is preparing to tour Scotland to mark the centenary of World War One. And ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In Flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row, that mark our place; and in the sky the ...
The scene of some of the bloodiest fighting from the First World War will be commemorated by this year’s Tour de France. A hundred years after the start of the global conflict and the first battle of ...