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By July 1918 WWI is resisted with strikes on the home front
Four months before the armistice workers begin to oppose the repression in Britain and the brutal intervention to smother the Soviet Revolution, writes JOHN ELLISON
IMPERIALIST BLUEPRINT: Allied troops parade past
their headquarters in Vladivostok in July 1918
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July 1918 brought more war along the long line of the Western Front, where one newly wounded British soldier-poet with a record of adventurous bravery and a German forename was Siegfried Sassoon.
He received a head wound from accidental fire from a fellow soldier when returning from a patrol on July 13. Just published was his poetry collection Counter-Attack and Other Poems.
One item included the following verse, which was to become famously symbolic of the war.
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