BBC World Histories - 08.2019 - 09.2019

40 GETTY IMAGES/BRIDGEMAN The dissent of man A detail of radical Mexican artist Diego Rivera’s Man, The Controller of the Univer ...

41 SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG PHOTO Æ Uneasy alliance An awkward-looking Adolf Hitler poses alongside the more flamboyant Benito Musso ...

42 GETTY IMAGES A killer cut down A French mounted policeman strikes Vlado Chernozemski moments after the Bulgarian assassin sho ...

43 SCIENCE MUSEUM/ WALT DISNEY ARCHIVES Æ Duck starter A poster for the early Walt Disney cartoon The Wise Little Hen, released ...

44 Richard Overy is professor of history at the University of Exeter, and is currently writing a global history of the Second Wo ...

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46 BRIDGEMAN Facing the future Five gueules cassées (‘men with broken faces’) – French soldiers with severe facial injuries – su ...

47 BY MARTINA SALVANTE ÆÆ Eight million people were disabled during the First World War. What happened to them next? ИЗП ОДГ ОТО ...

48 O n 28 June 1919, the eyes of the world were fixed on France. Leaders of the great powers had gathered in the Galerie des Gla ...

XXXXXXXXXX Æ 49 GETTY IMAGES Æ Smoothing relations A German veteran with a prosthetic arm works as a carpenter, c1919. Conferenc ...

50 BRIDGEMAN/ BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE before and during the event between inter-allied institutions and individuals int ...

51 GETTY IMAGES Æ material culture. A correspondent for the London-based period- ical The Hospital commended them thus: “A lecte ...

52 BRIDGEMAN to battle. The First World War triggered a rationalisation of medical procedures and practices, such as the reducti ...

53 FRACIS LE LOOK-PUBLI DOMAIN Martina Salvante is honorary research fellow at the University of Warwick. She was co-editor of L ...

54 M eena couldn’t believe her luck when, as a teenager, she got hold of a ticket to an Ahmad Zahir concert. She dressed in her ...

55 IMAGES FROM ZHVANDUN MAGAZINE REPRODUCED COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY) AND CARNEGIE CORP. OF NEW YORK/ ...

56 Peter Furtado follows eyewitness accounts from bygone travellers to roam six major capitals in past eras How to buy books in ...

57 Æ ALAMY The Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu, founded in AD 989. By the time of Leo Africanus’s visit in 1510, the city was hugely ...

Havana Baghdad Athens Samarkand Tenochtitlán Timbuktu 58 A map of Tenochtitlán, published in 1524, three years after the forces ...

59 ALAMY/GETTY IMAGES Æ The Parthenon dominates the Acropolis in Athens. By the time Heracleides of Crete visited, the city had ...