But as the war clouds gather and finally burst, the Muslim boys are taken off to hell-holes like Gallipoli, the Armenians are marched away to exile or death, and the Greek Orthodox are press-ganged into forced-labour units.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

As a hostel newbie - the ones on offer when I was young being more akin to borstals than anything else - I was astonished to discover they now have free wifi, a bar, barbecues, beer nights, and rooms more akin to boutique hotels than the dirty, ram-a-jam hell-holes of my youth.

BBC: Is interrailing still a rite of passage?

Newspapers are recounting harrowing tales of survivors of so-called death camps in North Borneo during World War II - while revealing the existence of what The Sun daily calls "hell holes" in present-day Malaysia.

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