The Enduring Impact of World War I - The New York Times - 0 views
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the bloodiest episode of combat in human history, generating 60,000 casualties in a single day
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but its occurrence in a television program that is acutely sensitive to historical accuracy is a sign of just how deeply, if in some ways obscurely, World War I remains embedded in the popular consciousness.
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“the war to end all wars,” it has instead become the war to which all subsequent wars, and much else in modern life, seem to refer.
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