Over-the-top stupidity

Updated April 23 2018 - 9:29pm, first published March 5 2014 - 3:00am

Mark Hearn (''History's shared culpability,'' Times2, March 3, p1) detailed many of the deadly but dumb aspects of World War I. It has long been my understanding that Germany sued for peace as early as 1916 but that the British - particularly Lloyd George - refused. We did not want a conditional surrender from Germany; we wanted unconditional surrender, the total prostration of Germany, the stripping of its wealth and of its fairly negligible colonial possessions. The war was prolonged for two dumb and deadly years - doubled in length - to ensure the primacy of the British Empire.

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