Series that uses letters to the editor of The Times from 1913 to 1919 to illuminate a fateful period in history.

As soldiers set off for the battlefields, the letters to The Times revealed a broad range of public attitudes to the war. Steelworkers threatened to down tools if their beer rations were stopped while an ex-serviceman wrote that young, single men unwilling to aid the war effort should be shot.

H.G. Wells expressed anger that he and others also excluded from service were not able to contribute more for their country.

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