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Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War
Intelligence Squared
The Cost of Britain's Participation in the First World War
I'm not a pacifist and I am a patriot. When Britain fights wars I want us to win. But victory in the First World War came at frankly too high a cost. In human life we lost more than 700,000 men. No fewer than 41,000 British soldiers returned home without an arm or a leg. 65,000 men were given disability pensions for severe shell shock. And there were other deeper costs.
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