World War One ended 11th November 1918 and took the lives of nine million soldiers. But as Michael Palin discovers, its battlegrounds in Europe are still full of revealing evidence of bitter fighting.

By New Statesman Michael Palin was born in 1943 in Sheffield ... Paris in the 1920s. Just after the First World War a lot of artists were gathering in Paris – Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway – taking ...

Book of the Week. Michael Palin tells the tale of his great-uncle, who was killed in the First World War, in a blend of biography, history, travelogue and personal memoir.

Sir Michael Palin read modern history at Brasenose College, Oxford before becoming one of the founding members ... medicine and the world of television and travel writing, our honorands have ...