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...manager for his little "picture palace" in a cellar, not three miles from the German wire, where tired soldiers can drop in for an hour's relaxation, and forget the unpleasant enemy who is almost within shot. One cinema has been showing the Somme battle film, and the men who flock to see it display extraordinary interest in the incidents of the "great push". Some infantry...

...manage popular discontent. Strikes on the home-front, and desertion and even mutinies on the front threatened the governments’ war efforts as populations tired of warfare. An example is the French mutinies of April-July 1917 (kept secret at the time), when large numbers of infantry soldiers refused to fight. Some twenty-thousand soldiers were court-martialled as a...

...managed to shoot the Archduke in the neck and his wife in the abdomen. Sophie died in the car, and Franz Ferdinand shortly after reaching the residence of the Governor. The conspirators could not know, and certainly had not planned, that a world war would result from this act of violence, but in the weeks that followed, decisions were made in Europe’s capitals that...

...manages to be simultaneously sensational, supernatural, romantic and realist. Milly Williamson, in her book The Lure of the Vampire, nails some of the reasons for Dracula’s impact – now and then – and why we are so fascinated by the dishy undead. And over recent years – who would have thought it! – the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer has found its way...