Tag: War

  • Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War Exhibition

    Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War Exhibition

    The Gallipoli military campaign (April 1915–January 1916) was a brutal episode in the First World War that resulted in over 130,000 deaths across both sides of the conflict. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) played a significant role in this campaign, and in 2015 the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa opened…

  • Recommendation: ‘Fall of Giants’ by Ken Follett

    “An epic of love, hatred, war and revolution“ Covering the period 1911-1924 Ken Follett’s 2010 novel ‘Fall of Giants‘ follows 5 families in Wales, England, Germany, Russia & the USA as they navigate their lives before, during and after the First World War…

  • The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Achilles

    Achilles was offered a choice… His choice was the latter; he was immortalised in Homer’s Illiad and known as one of the greatest warriors in the fascinating world of Greek mythology. So who was Achilles? He was the son of King Peleus of the Myrmidons and Thetis an nereid (otherwise known as a sea nymph).…

  • Alone in Berlin

    Otto and Elise Hampel were an ordinary German couple living in Berlin during the Second World War. History may never have thought to record their names had it not been for their outstanding act of resistance against the Nazi Regime in the early 1940s. After the death of Elise’s brother during the invasion of France…

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