JOHN KEEGAN: The First World War was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary, …had prudence or common goodwill found a voice; tragic because …it ended the lives of ten million human beings, tortured the emotional lives of millions more, destroyed the benevolent and optimistic culture of the European continent and left, when the guns at last fell silent four years later, a legacy of political rancour and racial hatred so intense…
N. C. Wyeth
Poems of American Patriotism
Published by Charles Scribner’s Son’s ~ 1922