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The First World War was a tragic and unnecessary conflict.

— John Keegan The First World War (1998)

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Europe is once again, as it was in 1900, prosperous, peaceful and a power for good in the world.

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The Somme marked the end of an age of vital optimism in British life that has never been recovered.

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