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If Britain fared better in perception or practice as the war dragged on, it was because the constraints on its sea power were much less robust: the British Empire had made sure of it. International law such as it was permitted the most gross moral wrongdoing of the period, besides the Armenian genocide: the British blockade of the Continent, which caused half a million civilian deaths through starvation.
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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