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Dar es Salaam - Ubhuche, Invisible Histories of the First World War—Series 2
5/5 Exploring why WWI is almost forgotten in Tanzania despite the casualties it suffered.
Delhi - Parting Words—Series 2
4/5 Shashi Tharoor explores Indian remembrances of the World War One.
Amman - Jordan, a Country of Nationalists—Series 2
3/5 Lina Attel explores how Jordanian national culture has survived since World War One.
Washington - Safe for Democracy—Series 2
2/5 David Frum explains how World War One still defines American foreign policy.
Sydney - Stories that Bind—Series 2
1/5 Wesley Enoch explores the powerful mythology of the Anzacs in Australia.
St Petersburg - White Flowers and Revolution
Novelist Tatyana Tolstaya tells a St Petersburg audience how World War I changed Russia.
Paris: The Christmas Truce—Series 1
1/5 Christian Carion asks what the mud and degradation of WWI did to the idea of heroism.
Dresden - Targets
Herlinde Koebl discusses World War One, targets and killing.
Sarajevo - Divine Uncertainty
Haris Pasovic explores WWI's effect on the long history of nationalism in the Balkans.
London - Shell Shock and the Shock of Shells
Joanna Bourke on the emotional, cultural and physical impact of WWI shelling on soldiers.