'Oh what a lovely Savas' begins Rana Mitter in this edition of Free Thinking, using the Turkish word for War. Rana and guests discuss the roles of Turkey, India, China and Japan in World War I, and how the very legitimacy of the idea of Empire was possibly the biggest ideological casualty of WW1.

Free Thinking - Oh What A Lovely Savas

The events of the first truly global war and its devastating and far reaching impact.

History

Society & Culture

How did WW1 change America's place in the world? Jonathan Dimbleby presents a public debate from the US Library of Congress in Washington

USA: Isolationism

How did technological and industrial development revolutionise World War One? The tank, gas, flame throwers, Zeppelins were like nothing that had been experienced before.

Germany: The Waging of War

A century ago a shot rang out in Sarajevo which set the world on a path to war. How did the peace made after WW1 influence the ethnic conflicts in the region during the 1990s?

Sarajevo: Nationalism

How did World War One change the face of the Middle East? And, how did this seismic and controversial period shape the century to follow?

Jordan: Redrawing the Middle East

What drove men to volunteer to fight during World War One? What drove them to the edge of sanity when they got there?

Free Thinking - Oh What A Lovely Savas

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