Today, August 4th is one of those odd anniversaries celebrated primarily in Europe and North America – the anniversary of the declaration of the First World War. It was called the Great War because no one had experienced such a conflagration of death and destruction in living memory. If only they’d known what the future held. Of course history is littered with hundreds of wars that went before – the Fall of Troy, the Persian Wars, The Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses, the Peloponnese Wars – the list goes on and on. There were between 17 and 22.5 million young men killed, injured or missing in action when it was done. Appalling. What a savage waste of young lives. But there…
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