November 11th 2018 marks the centenary of the end of The Great War.
On 4 August 1914, after a series of events starting with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Britain declared war on Germany. People in Britain opened their newspapers the next morning and found out war had begun.
It became known as The Great War because it affected people all over the world and was the biggest war anyone had ever known. In total, sixteen million people were killed and twenty million were injured as a result of the...