The Last Days of the Ottomans — with Eugene Rogan and Faisal Al Yafai
The Lede
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The Death of John Macdonald
i wondered if your views on the inevitability of history were affected by your own personal connection two world were. You write in the preface that about your great uncle, who was a scottish soldier, whose death at gallipoli, you say you owe your life to. And i get the impression that you consider your own existence to have been quite a close run thing in the end. Ha, ha, well, vise, i mean, if you look into any family tree, you realize how precarious our existence yours and mine is at tena. We're all accidents of history. Let's make the most of it.
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