More than 110 years later, the German officer's great, great grandson Philipp Cross has returned it to the soldier's family ... who has a British father and a German mother, inherited many ...

If the British ... young soldier’s fighting spirit, especially during World War I. In the early stages of the Great War, Carton de Wiart was serving with the Somaliland Camel Corps in east ...

An Australian soldier bringing in a wounded ... crossing the desert in Mesopotamia, WW1. The British decided that they could not abandon the Middle East to the Ottomans and began to improve ...

but after her death a handful of British-installed monarchies still endure in the Middle East. They have survived decades of war and turmoil and are now seen as bastions of a certain kind of ...