"I believe the professional historians."
You still have not put up anything on what your "professional historians" said to back your disgusting claims that the millions who died did so willingly in defence of a country which had massacred 10,000,0000 of its colonial citizens
You insult the British people by suggesting that they would give their lives for such a cause and you don't say much for a government which would ignore the deaths of so many Belgian colonials and go to war for a far lesser number of Belgians (a number that had been greatly exaggerated and distorted for recruiting propaganda - you've been given the facts of this and have chosen to ignore them.
You are continuing to either ignore or dismiss the facts of the bullying and distorting recruiting campaigns - the facts that that campaign failed in 1916 and was replaced by compulsory conscription - and the facts that history and society in general now recognise the war as being an imperial dispute
Prior to WW1 it was openly referred to as "The Great Imperial War" - the museum commemorating it is titled The Imperial War Museum - it was a dispute between Imperial powers over world domination, nothing less - all else were a fore-running incidentals to the main event.
You have yet to produce single single shred of evidence to your claims on recruitment - everything you have produced indicated that what you have been given here is now rejected by historians as jingoistic garbage - even by your tame historical journalist who, as has been pointed out by proper historians is 'somewhat weak on the causes of WW1'
You have once again dominated a thread with your self-confessed ignorance by inventing statements on their behalf to prove a point they haven't expressed an opinion on.
You seem to be determined that this now familiar display by you, "will not be over by Christmas", just like WW1 - but there again, in your spectacularly stupid fashion, you have even denied this commonly known phrase which is now used worldwide to describe naivety based on misinformation and ignorance of fact.
You appear to thrive on self-humiliation.
Jim Carroll
Sorry there are so many big wards in this - perhaps you can get a friend to explain it too you - a 'proper historian' maybe!!