First World War Session II: Sacrifice and Slaughter

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Description: Professor William Philpott, Professor of the History of War, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London: 'Sacrifice and slaughter: two armies, two wars?'

Response: Professor Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
 
Created: 2011-11-03 19:57
Collection: Forgetful Allies
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Professor Robert Tombs
Language: eng (English)
Keywords: Western Front; Memory of First World War; William Philpott; Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau;
 
Abstract: The First World War has inevitably left very different memories in France and Britain. Yet the Western Front was not two armies fighting two wars side-by-side. They faced the same challenges and we will never properly understand them or their war unless we consider them both together.
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