Woolf...and her Bloomsbury friends soon came to view the war as a - TopicsExpress



          

Woolf...and her Bloomsbury friends soon came to view the war as a pointless waste of human life. However, the great majority of her contemporaries (whatever the suffering they had endured) took a different view.The survivors wore with pride the six million Victory medals struck by the British authorities, which declared that the war had been fought, and won, ‘FOR CIVILISATION’. As the historian Hew Strachan has concluded,‘It was emphatically not a war without meaning or purpose’. - Oliver Garnett, EH Conservation Bulletin 71, p43 - what bollocks!
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:47:56 +0000

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