"It is entertainment NOT History, NOT factual, NOT the truth."
Like all good satire, it contains enough of the elements of truth to make it significant.
Probably among the most memorable scenes whas of the dress banquets where different generals and politicians stuffed their faces sniped and sneered at each other behind each others backs while the casualty figures rolled over the top of the stage.
Then, of course, in the screen version, the magnificent Maggie Smith as the beautiful cabaret artiste singing to persuade the onlookers, little more than children, to join up
As the camera pans in she is gradually transformed from a beautiful woman to a raddled whore - brilliant symbolism, which shows the reality of the actual situation, far more reliable than this apologist shit
Jim Carroll