At Villers-Bretonneux, The land has long healed, but the stories are raw
This was the war in 1917, one hundred years ago, remembered again this Anzac Day among the farmland and villages of the Somme and Flanders.
Nick Miller is Europe correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
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