Stories of War with Max Hastings
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Post Roumatic Stress and the British Army
The british army is finding it far more difficult to recruit young men to day for a citizen army than they did when the wars in irach and afghanistan were going on. I having visited fathes, battles newbu i do find you can understand how it's both dreadful, but it's all so very compelling, isn't it? And soldiers surely have got that same thing. They desperate for wars to finish. Yet, nelson's captains would raise a toast to a bloody war. Again, you get these two competing emotions. Let's be realistic.
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