Common Sense About the War
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"Common Sense About the War" was a pamphlet published by George Bernard Shaw during World War I. In it, Shaw argued that Great Britain and its allies were as responsible for the war as Germany. He advocated for negotiation and peace, and his anti-war stance made him notorious and a target of criticism.1
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. His pamphlet "Common Sense About the War" was a significant departure from the prevailing pro-war sentiment of the time.1
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