Monthly Archives: April 2014
So Was the First World War Justified?
Books have been written on this and many are being written now. A tidal wave of polemical articles and documentaries is gathering. My son asked me what I thought about this, so I needed to gather my thoughts. As with any such debate you can find evidence to support both sides. There is no doubt […]
1914 – a Just War?
On the opposing side are the historians who brilliantly – against the prevailing orthodoxy – argue that 1914 was a “just war” like 1939. The German war aims, as demonstrated by the German Historian Fritz Fischer, were every bit as expansionist as Hitler’s. Britain’s fight was just, since the Reich’s occupation of Belgium and Northern […]
The Opposing Battle Lines
I asked in the first posting: Was the First World War worth the Sacrifice? There is a general consensus that Second World War was worth the sacrifice, because of the evil of Hitler and the Nazis, who most definitely had plans for the subjugation and cleansing of the UK and its people after they had […]
The Big Question about the Great War
The Great War continues to be fought 96 years after it ended and – as with the French Revolution, the Tudors, the Norman Conquest and even the Romans in Britain – each generation and their politicians see it through the lens of their own time, preoccupations and preconceptions. I cannot claim any unique insights, or […]
First World War Memorials 
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