Lest we forget
Updated on 10 November 2008
Although nearly all veterans of the first world war have died, the folk memory of the conflict is strong, reports More4 News. But what version of the war are we remembering?
On 11 November 1918 the guns on the western front fell silent after four years of barbarity.
Tomorrow is the 90th anniversary of the armistice marking the end of the war.
Many academic historians are increasingly impatient with the version of the war held by most British people.
They say it is about time we stopped thinking of it as meaningless slaughter and controversially they blame English teachers at school, for an obsession with war poets like Wilfred Owen.
