The audience's first impressions of the Birling family

Priestly said ' I was politically minded to some extent' however he was 'never able to put politics first' The outbreak of war meant that when Priestly was 20, he joined the Armed Services as an Infantry Man. At 25 (1919), Priestly left the army. During his time in the war he had been in active front-line service in France and had nearly been killed when a German b**b exploded at two or three yards away from him. He had also been the subject of a gas attack.

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