I've heard this point many times and I don't really believe it. Only 4% at most of the British Armed Forces died. If you look at the postwar leadership, a lot of them served in WWII as well.

You can say that the bravest people died the most and while there is slight truth to that, war is random and armies in WWII were drafted.

Russia took more casualties than anyone else in the Allies, and nobody is complaining about their masculinity.

More likely the postwar First World is a victim of materialism decoupling high class interests from the good of the lower classes. Britain is supposedly very stratified by class.

I've heard this point many times and I don't really believe it. Only 4% at most of the British Armed Forces died. If you look at the postwar leadership, a lot of them served in WWII as well.

You can say that the bravest people died the most and while there is slight truth to that, war is random and armies in WWII were drafted.

More likely the postwar First World is a victim of materialism decoupling high class interests from the good of the lower classes. Britain is supposedly very stratified by class.