The rhymes of history echo from World War I
At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the Great War was over. But the "War to End All Wars" famously didn't live up to its billing. Still, it had greater impact on the world than any event of the last thousand years. The question is whether another such war might be looming today..
It was in World War I that humanity first practiced the industrialization of human slaughter — 16 million people were killed, more than 17 million were wounded.
Nobody could seem to stop it. During the height of the carnage, at the battle of the Somme, about 60,000 died the first day.… Seguir leyendo »