I should have further added, since it is of enduring importance, that today is Armistice Day. That dreadful conflict in Europe was a precursor to the next awful conflict in Europe, the latter being even more world-wide. That war led in turn to the post-war outcomes that ushered in the Cold War. And on it goes.

The Great War was perhaps the worst of all though, fought largely in trenches, conditions that destroyed the souls of men and brutalised the world thereafter. By any standard, it was incomprehensible.



Lest We Forget.