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Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War

Intelligence Squared

CHAPTER

The Morality of Wars

We went from being the world's biggest creditors to one of its greatest debtors hobbled by inflation and unemployment. And in the end we lost the one thing that our young men were told they were fighting for, our empire. It is no wonder that by the 1930s when we had already lost Ireland and were about to lose India so many people believed that the First World War had been for nothing.

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