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Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War

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The Role of India in the First World War

I'm surprised she didn't mention the role of India defending Britain in the First World War. Margaret McMillan, you suggested that it was patronizing not to recognize that the war was for a national way of life. How would Britain have reacted if Germany had controlled France post that event? And why did it appear so elusive to so many people who perhaps sought meaning in the first World War and supported Britain in that for reasons that were not just geopolitical?

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