I just watched the movie 1917 in the cinema. Shot as though it is one take, giving an immersive experience, it shows the frontline reality of war through an unforgettable human story. It has to be one of the greatest war movies ever made. I’d encourage everyone to go watch it.

I learned a fair bit about World War I while I was in high school in the UK. Its stories are often eclipsed by the much larger-scale World War II, which came two decades later — but many historians will argue that it was World War I that was more horrific and shook the world to a greater degree, because it was the first time industrial-scale technology had been brought to the theatre of war.