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Sunday, July 19, 2015

July 19th, 1915

- On the outbreak of the war, 19-year-old Georges Guynemer, given his love of flight, attempted to enlist in the French air force. Rejected...

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Wesley Ferris: Brampton, Ontario, Canada; My life-long love of history led me into academia, completing a PhD in modern British history and spending six years as a contract university lecturer. Teaching several courses on the First World War sparked a particular interest in that conflict, the most important of the 20th-century, and inspired my current project - a day-by-day history of the Great War, recounting events precisely 100 years after they happened.

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