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World War I graves in the cemetery of Capbreton. Tangopaso, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Norman Solomon / Common Dreams Midway through his cumulatively stunning new book Soldiers Don’t Go Mad, author Charles Glass quotes a declaration from The Times of London on August 18, 1917: “The war has brought new opportunities of heroism to us all. Every Briton in the full strength of manhood is a soldier, and the business of fighting is his duty.” At that point, World War I had been going on