Today, 91 years ago, the First world War ended. In Sweden the picture of the war in confused and dominated by bloody trench stalemate on the western front, even if historian Peter Englund recently tried to familiarize a Swedish audience with a wider view.
For me, with the Middle East as prime reference, the First World War has very different and more dramatic connotations, with wide upheaval of a historic order of affairs and a total redrawing of the regional map, geographically and politically.
Remember also all those who have died in wars since, and who fight for values again today.
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