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THROUGHHISTORY
In The East:
War Without End,
1918-1923
is on at the Musée de
l’Armée, Paris until 16
January 2019.
Find out more at
Finland’s General Mannerheim
inspects White troops in Vaasa musee-armee.fr
during the Finnish Civil War
AWORLDWARWITHOUTEND?
Eight objects from the Musée de l’Armée’s new exhibition that put paid to
the lie of peace in 1918
heendoftheGreatWarof1914to1918 who fought over borders and political settlements; Thelegacyof1918can beseen inthepoisonous
brought about the collapse of four great and the German Empire lost a chunk of its eastern ethnic and cultural fault lines that have led to war
empires. The Russian Empire was torn marches to birth the first independent Poland in Crimea and Ukraine, and Franco-British division
apart by a revolutionary Civil War between since 1795. In The East: War Without End, 1918- of the Middle East that created nearly a century of
TBolshevik Reds and nationalist/conservative 1923, a new exhibition at Musée de l’Armée, the instability in the region.
Whites; the Ottoman Empire was partitioned by French national military museum in Paris, tells the Collecting artefacts from museums across
Britain and France without the consultation or story of these conflicts, many of which are largely Eastern Europe as well as its own archives, In
consent of Arab nationalists; the Austro-Hungarian overlooked in the west yet continue to define much The East: War Without End, 1918-1923 is on at the
Empire was replaced by myriad new Slavic states of modern geopolitics. Musée de l’Armée until 16 January 2019.
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