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Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War
Intelligence Squared
The Anti-War Sentiment
There was no one clear UK way of life, but people thought that they were fighting to defend a society of which they were part. And you know, what a lovely war is interesting, I think, because it was done with a very anti-war sentiment. A handful of very powerful war poets who would not publish some of them until the 1960s. Wilfred Owen has given us a view of that war as one of sheer horror. There were always wars of movement on the Eastern Front, there were wars of movement in the Middle East. Towards the end of that war, the generals who were not all the idiots they'd been portrayed at were in fact beginning to find ways of dealing
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