Hastings' own words ,

"And so back to 1914. There is a Left-wing template for the two World Wars, as for everything else.
World War II is seen as Britain's 'good' struggle against Hitler, especially after 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and Stalin was obliged to abandon his earlier alliance with the Nazis.
But World War I is regarded by Socialists as our 'bad' conflict: morally quite distinct from World War II and the fault of aristocratic elites across Europe rather than of the Germans.
Michael Gove was right when he wrote last week that the history of the era was hijacked in the Sixties by Joan Littlewood and her satirical musical Oh! What A Lovely War, and more recently by Blackadder.
These brilliant productions propagated the vision of a futile struggle, conducted by imbecile generals.


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