""What they are saying, and I am denying, is that our people fought a futile and pointless war, without knowing what it was supposed to be about, because they were such pathetic jingoistic dupes and dummies.

I find that a disgraceful and disgusting slander on their memory.""

As pretty a piece of answering what was never said as you have managed yet.

1. How much knowledge of international affairs do you suppose farm labourers and factory hands possessed at a time when only the wealthy had radios and only the well to do had any formal education beyond reading writing and arithmetic at the most basic level?

They weren't stupid, but they had this notion of the evil Hun drilled into them long before the war started.

Instead of reading the skewed interpretations and xenophobic rants of those self styled modern historians, try reading the accounts of the time as they were happening. There are plenty of books available, if you can be bothered.

Don T.