Contact History: Roger D. Griffin
rdgriffin@brookes.ac.uk 

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“It was as if the fantasy of redemption through sacrifice—stubbornly entertained by both fighters and onlookers—was fuelled rather than quenched by the blood of the fallen, like pouring oil on flames. The whole First World War can be seen as a collective act of redemptive self-sacrifice—transcendent meaning produced by the relentless flow of blood.”