Apr 29, 2024 | Featured, Politics & Society
By Olli Hellmann, University of Waikato Photo by Caroline Attwood on Unsplash When New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day on April 25, it’s not only to honour the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I and subsequent conflicts, but also to mark a defining event...
Apr 24, 2023 | Featured, Politics & Society
Trenches From The First World War In Belgium. Craftnighter / Wikimedia Commons Jeffrey McNeill, Massey University It was observed […] that the English had slain wounded and captured German prisoners. So reads a disturbing war diary entry of the Bavarian 18th Regiment...
Sep 27, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Maria Armoudian Absent-mindedly paying tribute to murderous Turkish dictator Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is a stain on this country’s integrity. It’s time we did something about it, writes Maria Armoudian. Last week, in what once seemed to many an...
Jan 11, 2021 | Arts & Culture
By James Robins “In salvaging these stories of bloodshed and terror, heroism and humanity, we must pick apart the grand mythology which has smothered and replaced them.” A blue dawn broke over the hush, new light disputing the cool wash of lamp glow....