World War One: Patriotism
The Why Factor
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The Importance of Economics in the British Empire
Many men who joined the british forces were given far more food, far better pay and conditions than they would otherwise receive in civilian life. There was a sense of wanting to experience something beyond their normal lives. Chantonudas is reader in english literature at king's college london. And through texts and letters he studied the way the colonial troops experienced the war.
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