How real was it? By Dan Cruickshank. Women in uniform were a novelty in 1914 and yet 80,000 women served in the forces as non-combatants during World War One. Discover how one exceptional ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...