BY PAUL T HORGAN The analogy isn’t precise, but seems similar. Consider the origins of the Great War. Serbian fanatics in Bosnia, a province administered by Austria-Hungary since 1878 and annexed in 1908, assassinate the heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown. There is a tenuous link between the fanatics and the Serbian Kingdom. Austria-Hungary is given a ‘blank cheque’ by Imperial Germany to crush Serbia in … Continue reading War-gaming Iran
BY STEWART SLATER The day passed off as such days do. People marched, horses walked, planes flew. Flags were waved, street parties held, and the nation’s swing dancers briefly emerged from the shadows. And as the sun went down, we promised to remember them, the best of us. For the story we tell ourselves is a simple one. Roused to confront the evil of tyranny … Continue reading A Festival of Forgetting
BY ANASTASIA CHOO The 140,000 Chinese farm labourers, who over a century ago volunteered to leave their remote villages and work for Britain and France in the first world war, have been called “the forgotten of the forgotten”. Over the past decade, the story of China’s human contribution to the Great War has received some of the attention it has long been denied. These peasant … Continue reading Great War Chinese Labourers Forgotten
