Perhaps, when they come to reckon up the amount of their new War Loan, they will find that the fall of Baghdad and the amount subscribed are not unrelated. For German imagination had marked it out as ...

The Mongols stormed Baghdad in 1258, leaving the mighty Abbasid Caliphate in ruins. A city once known for its wealth and knowledge was reduced to ashes in a brutal conquest. Voting ends in ...

But Ge’s String Quartet No 5, Fall of Baghdad (2007), speaks the lingua franca of post-war avant-garderie with only a slight Chinese accent; distinct from, for the sake of argument, Tan Dun who has ...