England and the War is a collection of Sir Walter Raleigh’s lectures during the First World War. Focusing on the advantages of war, including technological developments as a humane practice of warfare, Raleigh’s lectures served as propaganda during a time when chemical warfare was first being considered as ethically questionable.

England and the War includes the following lectures: “Might is Right,” “The War of Ideas,” “The Faith of England,” “Some Gains of the War,” “The War and the Press,” and “Shakespeare and England.”

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