It used to be the case that writers, including many who were radical and left-wing, would enter the fray.
The poet Lord Byron fought in Greece in its war of independence against the Ottoman Empire, dying there from fever.
Poets Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, and Siegfried Sassoon enlisted early after the outbreak of the first world war with of a sense of patriotic duty.
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