These horrific wars yet was strangely a more civilized time vs today’s dumpster-diving societies.
The War that destroyed Europe.
My great uncle lied about his age and enlisted in the Army when he was 15. Was still “shell shocked” from his experince in France until his dying day in 1983.
The commonly-used expression “best and brightest” is a lamentation of the loss to England through two world wars of it’s great brain trust.
Explains to me in very simple terms why Marxist-socialists took over government completely after WW2.
That is the great tragedy and takehome lesson for me.
To all I highly recommend Dan Carlin’s WWI podcast entitled Blueprint for Armageddon. It is absolutely epic.