A fundamentally silly film: another perspective on The Water Diviner
Honest History President, Peter Stanley, reviews Russell Crowe’s film, The Water Diviner. Other material on the film, including links to other reviews. Sp...
Category: Articles
Geoffrey Robertson declares massacre genocide
By ELAINE FRY The West Australian Eminent human rights lawyer and QC Geoffrey Robertson’s latest book, An Inconvenient Genocide, draws attention to an imp...
Russell Crowe in The Water Diviner: Rewriting history
BY GUY WALTERS LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH From Braveheart to The Imitation Game, the tradition of Hollywood playing fast and loose with historical fact is ancient A...
Have We Forgotten? Gallipoli and the Armenian Genocide
By Robert Kaplan ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS A century ago, in a misconceived encounter on the history-soaked precipices of Asia Minor, the sons of Anzac received t...
Why don’t Turks commemorate the outbreak of World War 1?
BARÇIN YİNANÇ Hurriyet Daily News The question in the title was put to me by a foreign reader of the Hürriyet Daily news. It was posed last month, right after t...
When it all began?
By fratermal OregonLive In late evening of August 10, 1914, a Turkish destroyer, acting on instructions from authorities in Constantinople, escorted into and th...
War Memorial historian Ashley Ekins says Gallipoli campaign centenary should be used to educate, not celebrate
THE Australian War Memorial’s top historian hopes that the next four years will explode some ANZAC myths and educate Aussies about the truth of the Great War. A...
The Gallipoli/Dardanelles Campaign and the Armenian Genocide
By Alan Whitehorn The Armenian Weekly By Alan Whitehorn The Armenian Weekly In most of the writings about Gallipoli, civilian deportations and casualties are ra...