[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I’ve studied WWII extensively, WWI is just too grim.

[DuncanWaring]

It killed roughly 10,000 men a day, 365 days a year, for over four years.

[mikeus_maximus]

Yep. My grandfather was gassed in Argonne. He finally died from his injuries in 1958, a few months before I was born.

[odawg]

“I’ve studied WWII extensively, WWI is just too grim.”

Same with me.

[Flick Lives]

I’ve studied WWII extensively, WWI is just too grim.

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Too true. One of the best podcasts I’ve heard on WWI, its horrors, and its utter pointlessness in its origin was from the Hardcore History podcast series “Blueprint for Armageddon”.

[Afterguard]

WWI was terribly grim and virtually preventable. So many mistakes and so much hubris. I recommend Winston Churchill’s five volume (technically six, but Volume III was written in two parts) The World Crisis. He began the the war as First Lord of the Admiralty, and later (after the Gallipoli failure) served in the trenches of France before being recalled to Government by David Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions. It can be a bit of a slog in places but even so it is riveting reading by a master historian who was an actual actor in the tragedy of WWI.

[ealgeone]

I’d bet those who served on the Eastern Front might disagree.

[oh8eleven]

WWI is just too grim.
What makes it more unbelievable is that the war was over nothing. Nothing! Unfathomable.

[bravo whiskey]

I too have studied a lot on ww2. Currently into 18th, 19th and 20th century Russia. Russian Civil War is fascinating and now into The Great Game in central Asia. For ww1 skip the western front. Check out the Italian front, Russian front, Turkish front and Africa.