And it will be a reminder that -- from the trenches of the First World War to the mountains of Afghanistan -- Aussies and Americans have stood together, we have fought together, we have given lives together in every single major conflict of the past hundred years.
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We find ourselves in a village in northern, Protestant Germany, a year before the outbreak of the First World War, and there, with only the briefest of excursions to the world beyond, we stay.
According to Bruce Bairnsfather, one of the most popular soldier-writers of the first world war, the Tommies were just as hardheaded.
The role of the British Army in the First World War and the competence or otherwise of her generals continues to be a subject of debate.
Ms Moggach's grandmother, who lost her husband, her only brother and 11 cousins in the slaughtering fields of the first world war, was the inspiration for this cleverly written tale of domestic intrigue in the sooty streets of Southwark, a working-class district of London just south of the Thames, as the war draws to its close.
Had the United States been committed to intervene in full strength from the first moment of a European war, the first world war would probably, and the second world war would certainly, never have happened.
Yet the history that Mr Milosz has witnessed epitomises the tragic story of Europe for nearly a century: from the first world war to the fall of the great monarchies, from Auschwitz and the Warsaw ghetto to the imposition of Soviet control, from the struggles of Solidarity to the globalised market-place.
Following the cessation of play during the First World War, the Championships resumed in 1919 under the spell of Suzanne Lenglen who won five titles in a row.
If the cataclysm of the first world war had destroyed any belief in the immutability of a civilisation based on liberal, progressive British values, the origins of the morbid age can also be found in developments in the natural and social sciences that occurred well before 1914.
After all, the carnage of the first world war left an indelible impression on the next generation of European politicians but did not prevent a further war from erupting 21 years later.
The big shift occurred after the carnage of the first world war and the Spanish flu that followed.
Mr Hirst, the dean of foreign correspondents in Beirut after five decades in residence, begins his tale with Lebanon's creation in the wake of the first world war, as a French gift to the Maronite Christians of the coastal Levant who had long seen Paris and the Vatican as their saviours.
Milovan Djilas ... described the exploits of a Montenegrin who took part in the slaughter of Moslems following the First World War.
The picture has a stately, waltz-like rhythm, as the narrator (Marcello Mazzarella, a dead ringer for the real Proust) guides us through the declining fortunes of his friends under the shadow of the First World War.
The speech evoked the great moments of nation building in the country's history: the First World War battlefield of Gallipoli "when Turks and Kurds fell in battle shoulder to shoulder, " the War of Independence and the First National Assembly.
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The Star of David accordion band led the marchers through the country lanes and they filed into the church for an hour-long service to commemorate the First World War Battle of the Somme.
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Mr. LOUIS NIZER (Attorney, author): If we look into the laboratory of political science, we will see why our plans to punish the Germans of the end of the first World War failed.
But by the eve of the first world war Britain's income per head had been overtaken by that of America, the 20th century's great power.
Peter's Square that he wished to follow in the steps of Benedict XV, who led the church through the turbulent years of the First World War.
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Of course the experience of the first world war profoundly influenced a whole generation of soldiers and civilians.
It was first levied in 1902 as a way of getting the rich to help pay for the construction of the Kaiser's navy, putting it among the lesser-known causes of the first world war. (Ordinary folk were doing their part by drinking beer.) It was scrapped in 1933 to stimulate the economy but Hitler brought it back, again with martial intent, six years later.
The killings occurred in and around the Istrian peninsula, which fell to Italy at the end of the first world war but was lost to Yugoslavia after the second.
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At the outbreak of the first world war, only 62 independent countries existed in the entire globe.
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It was Germany's devastating use of mustard gas in the trenches of the First World War which prompted Britain's research.
The onset of the First World War led to a "truce" to concentrate on the war effort, in which women were heavily involved.
He has taken part in a commemoration service for those killed during the First World War's Battle of the Somme.
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Before the first world war, the products of the Italian masters were among the preferred collectibles of the great and the good of Europe.
Lispector was born in Ukraine to a family still reeling from the pogroms and plagues that followed the first world war and the creation of the Soviet Union.
The Red Poppy is an internationally-recognised symbol of remembrance and has been so since the end of the First World War.
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