CONTENTS Features

British officers inspect captured Turkish guns in Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq), March 1917. This issue we explore First World War campaigns beyond the western front, such as the clashes between the Allies and the Ottoman empire

EUROPE SPECIAL

16 The Big Question: Has the EU been a success? J

Experts debate the diverse impacts of Europe’s pan-continental project 64 Perspectives: The Munich Agreement J

PE Caquet on the Czechoslovak, British and German view of the 1938 settlement 72 The Conversation: Europe’s highs and lows J Simon Jenkins ta lks to Kathleen Burk about his new book on European history

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26 Columbus’s son and the largest library in the world J

BY EDWARD WILSON-LEE From shipwreck to ‘universal library’, the remarkable story of Hernando Colón 48 Beyond the western front J

BY DAVID OLUSOGA Why the First World War was a truly global conflict – and how that story was forgotten Plus Ashley Jackson on the key campaigns 58 Seeds of change BY RICHARD BISGROVE How cross-fertilisation of ideas transformed parks and gardens in the US and UK

J On the cover

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