History A-Level
Costs and controversy of total war
What Costs and controversy of total war means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The cost in lives and civilian suffering, including the internment of civilians in concentration camps.
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- Paper 3, Option 35.2: The British experience of warfare, c1790–1918 - 3 The second Boer War, 1899–1902 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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