Wildred Owen is considered by many to be the greatest poet coming out of WWI. As a soldier he wrote about the horrors and realities of trench warfare.
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Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon was a leading British WWI poet who used stark realism to describe the horror and misery of the war. He also greatly influenced the writings of Wilfred Owen.
Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
Imam Si Kaddour ben Ghabrit led a mosque-based resistance effort that provided shelter and travel assistance to as many as 1,700 French Jews during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II.
Albanian Muslims During the Holocaust
For many years the heavy curtain of Communism shrouded Albania from the view of the rest of the world. When that curtain was lifted in 1991 amazing stories emerged about the role of Albanian Muslims saving Jews during the Holocaust that swept across Nazi-occupied Europe.
Abraham Lincoln
This article highlights a lesser known part of Abraham Lincoln’s life. As a congressman, Lincoln was a big critic of the Mexican-American war, 1846-1848. He was an outspoken critic of then-president James Polk’s questionable grounds for starting the war.