Good post this one, thanks. In today's hussle bussle life it's easy to over look what men went through in the 14/18 war. I often google map these places and I am humbled by the French and their refusal to plow these land marks under, I'm not sure the British would have been able to muster that level of respect.
I read an interesting little article on an Amazon review where a man describes the first world war as a european civil war, he even went as far as describe WW2 as the same, a civil war.
I find this point of view very interesting because of the fact that Britian was in 1914 and uptil the 50s, still teaching school children about their Saxon heritage. How quick we all are to put aside who we all are for war.
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