9. Not just French and British: you can't understand Spanish Civil War without appreciating Franco's advantage of having Moroccan troops.
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10. At the background of WWI was German anxiety that France & Britain had global empires, which included supply of imperial troops.
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11. Here in Canada, it's common to talk about the First World War as being fought for freedom and democracy.
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12. But, Woodrow Wilson & the Yanks aside, it wasn't common during WWI to see it as war for democracy; it was a war for empire.
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13. Paradox of WWI was that war fought for empire undermined the empire, first in Ireland and then everywhere.
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14. Not a few of the imperial soldiers of the first world war would go back and participate in national liberation movements.
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15. Tory historians like Niall Ferguson are more clear-sighted about this than liberals.For Ferguson war mistake because of damage to empire
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16. I often think Remembrance Day should be called Amnesia Day: there's a willful forgetting of the causes of war and its horrors.
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17. We do the dead no honour by refusing to think about why they died.
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@HeerJeet Reminding me of this passage near the end of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands:pic.twitter.com/J96jmqg1UV
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