He saw the gloriously skewed al-Hadba minaret, known as the "hunchback", which had been emblematic of Mosul for hundreds of years, in ruins. "It was like a ghost town," he says. "Dead bodies all ...

Turkish Relics: In the provincial town of Eger, Török Fürdő is the last surviving Turkish bath in the Hungarian countryside, and is not far from the northernmost remaining minaret erected by ...