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The WWI Lessons We Haven’t Learned

Nov 11, 2018
While Trump is in Paris to commemorate the end of World War I, we should learn from that bloody episode that, among other things, we cannot credit politicians who promise us a short, glorious war.
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Going Beyond the Tale of a Boy and His Horse

Mar 1, 2012
For all the spectacle of thundering cavalry charges, muddy trenches and wartime love and loss, the current popular storytellers of the First World War skip over the conflict's greatest moral drama by leaving out part of its cast of characters.