Yes, exactly on the soldiers. The war was just one big muscle-flexing exercise, rather than the altogether more worthy fight of World War II with Nazism. These people paid for the politicians' ambitions with their life blood. To see humanity overcome that idiocy at such a time leaves me breathless. I really recommend you read The Thirty-Nine Steps, which takes a very bitter look at the motivation behind World War I (er, there is some strange anti-Semitism in it, though).
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Yes, exactly on the soldiers. The war was just one big muscle-flexing exercise, rather than the altogether more worthy fight of World War II with Nazism. These people paid for the politicians' ambitions with their life blood. To see humanity overcome that idiocy at such a time leaves me breathless. I really recommend you read The Thirty-Nine Steps, which takes a very bitter look at the motivation behind World War I (er, there is some strange anti-Semitism in it, though).
Thank you for the film rec! I'll check it out!