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Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 23 Dec 2023 9:12 p.m. PST |
…t Have Ended WW1 Sooner & Changed the 20th Century "THE GREAT WAR marked the emergence of total war in a way not seen since the Thirty Years War of the 17th century.
The 10 million dead and 21 million wounded are only part of the story. Millions of people, many of them civilians, experienced violence as a daily occurrence, and entire societies were dislodged. For untold multitudes, laissez faire capitalism disappeared for good, never to return. Artists, writers, intellectuals in general celebrated the irrational as a positive good. Total war would soon lead to the totalitarian state — Verdun and the Somme to Auschwitz and Hiroshima…"
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