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Oh What A Lovely War
In the 1960s, radio and stage shows helped provoke a change in attitudes towards World War I. One of them was a musical called Oh What A Lovely War.
In the 1960s, radio and stage shows helped provoke a change in attitudes towards World War I.
Songs once sung by men in the trenches helped audiences to think of the war from the point of view of ordinary soldiers rather than officers.
Image: British soldiers during the Battle of the Somme (Press Association)
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