The Pity of War

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

'Flashy, lopsided, inconsequentially contrarian'. Paul Lay is unimpressed by a recent BBC programme on the First World War.

The Sorrow of 'The Pity of War' | History Today

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Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers, the Australian-born Cambridge historian’s scholarly account of the origins of the First World War, is nearing sales of almost 200,000 copies in Germany. That is an