Dominic Odey
Stories (83/0)
All Among the Watchtowers
Perhaps more than any former jap Bloc country, East Germany keeps to exude a odd fascination for plenty. Pix of the Berlin Wall with its barbed wire, watch towers, and ‘dying strip’, as well as memories of the all-seeing, all-knowing state safety service – the scary Stasi – have helped to cement the German Democratic Republic inside the public imagination as the remaining instance of an oppressive communist police state. In comparison to scholarly studies on the GDR, famous records books rarely remember what life was like for everyday East Germans. Katja Hoyer seeks to fill this gap with beyond the Wall, which arrives purporting to be ‘the definitive records’ of the self-proclaimed workers’ and peasants’ nation.
By Dominic Odey12 months ago in Fiction
A House Divided
What the Easter 1920 riots in Jerusalem revealed about British rule in Palestine. Shortly after 10 am on Sunday four April 1920, a cinematographer set up his digicam close to the entrance to the Christian suq interior of Jerusalem’s walled old town to film Muslim pilgrims collecting close to the Jaffa Gate at the start of the pageant of Nebi Musa. According to local legend, the twelfth-century Muslim leader Saladin invented Nebi Musa to thwart any try by way of Christian pilgrims pouring into Jerusalem at Easter to reclaim it for Christendom. Elsewhere inside the Holy City, Christians were celebrating Easter and Jews have been making ready for Passover. The temper of the gang on the Jaffa Gate became pleased before everything but, because the movie was shot with the aid of an unknown cameraman shows, violence suddenly broke out and the group scattered. It's far not possible to tell exactly who became attacking whom, however, the film captures the very moment whilst Jerusalem becomes plunged into a frenzy of anti-Jewish rioting that lasted four days.
By Dominic Odey12 months ago in Fiction
Against the Odds
The warfare of the Springs of Cresson marked the beginning of the stop for the dominion of Jerusalem. The struggle of the Springs of Cresson changed into a devastating and perplexing struggle in the history of the Crusader States. Its proximity to the struggle of Hattin, which happened a month later with effects that had been extra keenly felt both within the Holy Land and Europe extra normally, has ended in Cresson being unnoticed. Nonetheless, the occasions of 1 may additionally 1187 had been born from the political demanding situations confronted through the dominion of Jerusalem and served as a portent for the activities that came to outline the Crusader States inside the past due 12th century.
By Dominic Odey12 months ago in Fiction