Learning about WWI, it was staggering when you realize how many men would die in battles, even in battles nobody even knows about, especially on the Russian side.
Slightly off topic, but speaking of World War I casualties, I’m reading a book now that has an excuse for the Gallipoli campaign. It’s about Allenby’s campaigns against the Turks, but suggests that Gallipoli was actually intended to take Turkish pressure off the Suez Canal and Mesopotamia. It’s early in the book. “How Jerusalem was Won, W.T. Massey, London, 1919. (Free Ebook). That’s not something I’ve run across in any modern history.