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How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war

38 mins | Dec 12, 2017
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The first world war’s truly unknown soldiers were its non-white combatants. Pankaj Mishra, writing in The Guardian, looks at the terror and degradation experienced by the colonial subjects of Western empires, both at home and on the battlefield.

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