Horrible war [I Am Interested In Ww1 and Ww2]

The 1914-1918 War was arguably the most horrible of all wars at least in my opinion. If a man was in a an infantry battalion and ordered into an attack, his chances of survival were about 80 to 20 against. Fliers in the RFC had an expected life span of 2 weeks. After 6 weeks they were veterans.
At times, 1 in 4 merchant ships crossing to or from the UK were torpedoes by submarines.
Hellish thing, war.

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Speedyman · 70-79, M

It was lions led by donkeys

RhondasMum · 61-69, F

@Speedyman Yet in the end, the donkeys led the British army to the longest series of victories since Wellington, with a combination of all arms that made the British army (I include Canadian and Anzac) the best in the world.

Speedyman · 70-79, M

The problem was that the settlement afterwards made the Second World War pretty inevitable@RhondasMum

RhondasMum · 61-69, F

@Speedyman Perhaps. Historians are divided over that. If Germany had won, the world would have been a much worse place.

Speedyman · 70-79, M

Yes but if we look at the settlement for the Second World War we didn’t make the same mistakes which gave rise to Nazism@RhondasMum