World War One - Free Thinking - Oh What A Lovely Savas

Free Thinking - Oh What A Lovely Savas

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'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.

Published on Saturday, 5th July 2014.

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