A Hundred Years After the Armistice

Good article on the ending of World War I, which my grandfather fought while in France. One paragraph was very discerning:
"The war took a staggering toll: more than nine million men killed in combat, and another twenty-one million wounded, many of them left without arms, legs, noses, genitals. Millions of civilians also died. And the long-range consequences were worse still: in Germany, the conflict left a simmering bitterness that Hitler brilliantly manipulated. It is impossible to imagine the Second World War happening without the toxic legacy of the First."