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Britain's legacy to the tortured Ottoman Empire

Selfish imperial agreements between Britain and France, combined with the contradictory Balfour Declaration of 1917, fuelled hostilities in the Middle East

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First World War battles in the Middle East

The Middle East's instability has its roots in the defeat of Turkey's Ottoman Empire at the close of the conflict. A century on, the battles continue

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Letters from a PoW: 'surrounded in Kut with the backing of a jaded and...

Captain Ian Martin became a prisoner of war after attempts to seize Baghdad failed, eventually forcing troops to surrender in Kut

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First World War art: 'Destruction of an Austrian Machine'

Commissioned to record Britain's air campaigns, artist Sydney Carline tended to favour magnificent aerial vistas over the theatrics of the melee

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First World War poetry: 'The dead Turk'

For Geoffrey Dearmer - the last surviving poet of the First World War - the vision of a dead Turkish soldier seems to have been a moment of epiphany

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Gallipoli landing VCs: The 'Six Before Breakfast'

Six British soldiers were awarded Victoria Crosses in a single action at the Gallipoli landings, one of the most forlorn campaigns of the First World War

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Lawrence of Arabia: guerrilla genius

Oxford archaeologist and maverick First World War officer Thomas Edward Lawrence adapted Arab warfare to topple an empire and change history

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British war graves 'a quiet reminder' of 1917 Gaza battles

The British War Cemetery - the final resting place of thousands of British and allied soldiers - prestents a contradictory calmness in Gaza

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Clement Attlee: veteran of Gallipoli who went on to become prime minister

It was modesty, duty and patriotism that helped Clement Atlee survive the First World War's bloody Gallipoli campaign

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