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the askari have been poorly understood as historical agents

Infantry Division in World War I were outnumbered and inexperienced young men facing hardened veterans

000 men dead in just 138 days

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Women began to work in munitions factories

The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade Lusitania the askari have been poorlyDescription by Philip Jenkins Paperback The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The war was fought