Keegan, despite his vast expertise, confesses that even when one knows what happened, it is difficult to explain why.
So, it’s not just me. I was born in 1958 but the subject of WWI I’ve always found haunting aND sad.
That's the feeling I got again & again when traveling off the beaten path in Britain. In the village centers and town centers everywhere, I saw old stone monuments with the names of all the local boys who had lost their lives in "The Great War". Same encounters in Germany as well. You could just feel the tears flowing from the inscriptions that parents wrote there and in graveyards.
Think of the horror that would have appeared in those faces during the dedication of these monuments, if you could have traveled back in time and corrected them by saying, "No, that's wrong. Sorry, but it's not "The Great War To End All Wars". It's just World War # 1 is all".