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What the First World War can teach us about the Third

More than 72,000 names of soldiers killed in the Battle of Somme are listed on the Thiepval Memorial (Getty Images)
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John Keiger
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Professor John Keiger is the former research director of the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge. He is the author of France and the Origins of the First World War.

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