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
View ArticleFirst 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
View ArticleLetters 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
View ArticleFirst 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
View ArticleFirst 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
View ArticleGallipoli 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
View ArticleLawrence 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
View ArticleBritish 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
View ArticleClement 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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