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Songs of the Great War

Here are some sites with  more information about the First World War.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/  This site from the BBC offers a virtual tour inside a trench.

http://firstworldwar.com/ This large site contains biographies of the major players, newsreel footage, diary accounts and video of the battlefields as they look today.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html  This Library of Congress site has World War I issues of Stars and Stripes, the official US Army newspaper.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/199768.stm A second BBC site with audio interviews of veterans.

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/westfront/ypsalient/meningate/lastpost.htm  This page describes the Last Post Ceremony at Ypres, Belgium.  A tribute to fallen soldiers that has been held every day since 1929.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9792310 A photograph of the grave of George Lawrence Price, the last soldier killed during the war.

Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:14am CDT

Songs from the last year of World War I , including Oh How I Hate to Get Up and Is There Still Room For Me Neath the Old Apple Tree?
Direct download: songs_of_the_great_war.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:07am CDT

Songs from the middle years of World War I  including

If You Were the Only Girl and We Don't Want the Bacon.

Direct download: Songs_of_the_Great_War_Part_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:34am CDT

     Songs recorded during the early days of World War I.  Music includes:  Pack Up Your Troubles and Your King and Country Want You.
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:05pm CDT