Hamza Karcic23 July 2023 17:07 BST | Last update: 1 week 3 days agoA century later, the peace treaty is still in force and continues to have a profound impact on Turkey and beyond […]
How Muslim soldiers helped save the Allies from defeat David crosslandNov 13, 2019 Engraved with Islamic inscriptions, the headstones of 576 Muslim soldiers stand in ranks facing Makkah at Notre […]
It’s no surprise that Britain’s commemorations fail to mention the 140,000 Chinese labourers shipped to France to dig trenches. My father’s diaries show they were treated as no more than slaves, […]
Actor and Old Harrovian Laurence Fox insists the appearance of a Sikh soldier in Sam Medes’s film 1917 is “forcing diversity” on viewers, which is, in his opinion, “institutionally racist”. […]
A barren war cemetery in Amara houses the dead from the allies’ most calamitous defeat in the First World War. It was a request from a canny grandmother in Lincolnshire that took […]
The Independent Voices and more: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/armistice-centenary-first-world-war-britain-east-africa-germany-a8639766.html With the passing of the centenary of the end of the First World War, I am sure that many will have moved their […]
One Armenian woman was discovered on a train by soldiers, but refused to be separated from her companions. She was removed from the carriage and ‘married to the legionnaire who had rescued her’ Robert […]
On the anniversary of the end of the First World War, even photographs cannot speak of our true history Francois Bost, a war photographer, is being celebrated in a new exhibition […]
How Muslim soldiers helped save the allies from defeat in the First World War David Crossland June 7, 2018 A grave of a Muslim soldier who died during the First World War […]
by indy100 staff in newsUPVOTE Approximately six million soldiers in the UK were mobilised during the First World War, but millions of troops from overseas also responded to the call to arms. These are some of the countries that contributed to the British war effort. Source: ICM Research and British […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Let them die now. Let the memorials gather grass and the commemorations be over. I wish all those dead men could lose their eternal youth […]
by Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT A pan-European digital library has collected 500,000 mementos The French embassy in Beirut held a gloomy ceremony last week to mark the killing of its 58 paratroopers in a suicide truck bombing 30 years ago. An Islamic Jihad bomb. For which, I suppose, read Iran. […]
When Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip fatally shot the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, the assassination is seen as the event that […]