Great stuff, and thanks for posting. A bit bittersweet, as well: the little boys in it would know the horrors of Verdun and the Somme, fifty years after the filming they’d still be picking through the rubble of those magnificent buildings, and sixty years after, they’d be watching a wall bisect the city and the planes that had flattened the place so shortly before flying in to feed it. Interesting times.
And it was all started by a single act of a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip... who is a complete unknown to 99.99% of the people on earth.
How different would the world be today without that single act?
No WWI, No Soviet Union, No Hitler, No WWII, No Cold War, No Vietnam war, No Communist China...