surely there was and are differing views
the rich and well off thought that we were teflon and it would be over in weeks (they were not fighting the war)
probably a bad analogy but here goes the England and Iceland game, one good blow and we thought we had won it, but alas the other team were stronger in mind than us and had more powerful weapons and unlike the England football team we got stronger when we knew what we were up against
it took nearly a million men
I just hope that they the Europeans do not forget that
....and the 17million deaths that were not the King's men....