Alex uses the Imperial War Museum's World War I display to explain how attention can concentrate on the Western Front. He acknowledges the limits of exhibition space and budget while questioning how little of the wider war visitors encounter. Gallipoli can then become the only campaign beyond France that people remember. The Middle East also saw a substantial campaign whose movement and operations offered lessons for World War II. This is a criticism of selective public memory, alongside an acknowledgment of the choices museums face.
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The Western Front can obscure the war's other campaigns
A focus on the Western Front leaves less room for the Middle Eastern campaigns and their lessons in mobile warfare.