Salvador Allende must have struck an odd image wearing the gas mask, bullet proof vest and helmet that he donned during the siege of the Chilean presidential palace. In his hands, Allende carried a Kalashnikov rifle, a gift from Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The gun bore an inscription “To my friend and comrade in arms, Salvador.”[1] This would be the same gun that Allende would use to end his own life according to the eye witness account of his friend and personal surgeon Dr. Patricio Guijon Klein....

Well, here's my first blog. Comments and constructive criticism welcome.

Why we celebrate a defeat

On the 25th of April, 1915, the men of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps went ashore at Gallipoli. The eight month campaign saw some of the most brutal fighting in some of the most inhospitable terrain of the war. The fighting however was for nothing. In December of the same year, the Allied troops were evacuated from the peninsula leaving the Turks in control of...