A billet without the bullets: an extraordinary refuge from the First World War is still going strong 100 years on
By Michael Williams It’s hell out there on the Ypres frontline. Crowds file off tourist buses marked Passchendaele and Tyne Cot, shops are touting maps, medals and memorabilia and the Flanders Fields museum is handing out digital history packages on plastic Fitbit-style wristbands. Only halfway though four years of centenary commemorations, the World War One […]