One of the strangest things noted by many soldiers in 1914-18 was the result of a realisation that, whereas one could often not hear big guns firing when one was close by them, they could be heard many miles away. There were “zones of silence” and No.18 contains an article by a physicist from York University explaining why. There is also material on an execution and some accounts of Christmas 1914.

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