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The Opposition to the Great War in Wales, 1914-1918 by Aled Eirug
A definitive history of Welsh opposition to the imperialist Great War
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PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
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ALED EIRUG has dug long and deep into a treasure trove of archives and surveyed the already published work of historians and propagandists to convincingly challenge the orthodoxy championed by Professor KO Morgan and others that, from the beginning, the Welsh people danced more enthusiastically than any other to the drums of war.
While Eirug’s statistical case, in terms of recruitment figures for England, Scotland and Wales is neither clear nor conclusive, his panoramic and in-depth account of anti-war activity and sentiment — religious, pacifist, socialist and internationalist — certainly is.
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