Read Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.

Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.

The first month of the First World War day by day; Tuchman's Pulitzer that Kennedy read during the missile crisis.

Watch Stanley Kubrick's anti-war film Paths of Glory, set during World War I.

An American ambulance driver and an English nurse in the Italian war; the retreat from Caporetto.

Paul Baumer and his classmates in the trenches; the German novel of the First World War.

An idiot, or a genius, in the Austro-Hungarian army; the funniest book about a war.

The first Best Picture: a silent Great War dogfight epic with real biplanes and Clara Bow.