Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War One
History written in text books is one thing, (hi)stories re-told from father to son, down the line of tribes and …
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Lawrence In Arabia — the Southern Reaches of WW I
As World War I came to its bloody close in the fall of 1918 the British public had to be …
Arabs in WW I
This looks like this will be very interesting, from Al Jazeera: World War One was four years of bitter conflict from …
How Wars Begin
Among his many popular, controversial and and voluminous texts on European history, British historian A. J. P. Taylor produced one …