
Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know
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The History of the Anti-General War
A lot of it is people writing in the 1930s. The anti general thing was to a large extent caused by two very prominent politicians, never make an enemy out of a politician Emily. It's not obviously, obviously, some people did hate the generals. They hated it as a sort of generic class. And you know what, I used to hate my high up bosses, the ones I never met,. because they were distant figures who affected my life. So of course, you didn't like some generals, but you didn't know anything about them or anything about it. In fact, you were just being human and reacting as humans do by just hitting out at people who influenced your life
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