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3 - Meaning

from Part I - Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2019

Justin Fantauzzo
Affiliation:
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Chapter 3 looks at what the campaigns in the Middle East and Macedonia meant to soldiers. In the early stages of the campaigns, many soldiers were fed up at being ‘exiled’ from the Western Front and embarrassed not to be fighting Germans. So far from the Western Front, they had to find a different meaning for their campaigns. Some soldiers found a personal meaning in the greater likelihood that they would survive the war, while others, mostly pre-war regular soldiers, were concerned about career mobility. Strategic and moral meanings were also found. In diaries and letters home, soldiers argued that they were contributing to the global war effort and the defeat of the Central Powers. Others argued that they were liberating Arabs and Jews from Ottoman misrule and bringing the benefits of liberal imperialism to the supposedly backward peoples of the Middle East and the Greeks. In both this chapter and in Chapter 5, it is impossible not to see in the writings of soldiers and ex-servicemen an argument for Britain’s imperial project – that, to them, the war and the aims of British liberal imperialism were compatible and mutually reinforced each other.

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The Other Wars
The Experience and Memory of the First World War in the Middle East and Macedonia
, pp. 93 - 138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Meaning
  • Justin Fantauzzo, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Book: The Other Wars
  • Online publication: 28 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108782067.004
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  • Justin Fantauzzo, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Book: The Other Wars
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  • Meaning
  • Justin Fantauzzo, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Book: The Other Wars
  • Online publication: 28 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108782067.004
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