Exactly right. So many of the very best died in that stupid war.
We have still not recovered from it.
Both the NAZIs and the Soviets came from that stupid war.
What brings a tear to my eyes is knowing all of these fallen patriots died and we ended up with communism anyway.
It wiped out a generation of men in France. There was a great novel “Once An Eagle” about a soldier who got in after the Spanish-American war and served into Vietnam.
Great writing, and in one passage he talks about France after the war when there were no adult French men around, and women from childbearing age through elderly grandmother stage were all dressed in black.
The Last Day of World War One is a BBC documentary by Michael Palin of Monty Python. He had a relative who died on the last day of the war and he wanted to find out what happened. Epic stupidity on display The armistice was signed and would go into effect at 11 am. Both sides new it and yet orders were given for early morning attacks. It is worth the watch.