... global conflict involving 32 nations. The enthusiasm with which the European people greeted the outbreak of hostilities during World War 1 quickly turned to horror as casualty lists lengthened and reality set in. What had been projected as a brief war became a four year struggle. When the guns finally did fall silent, the German, Austrian, Russian empires collapsed, and the greater part of a generation of young men lay dead. At the beginning of the war, ... soldier to awaken him. "If anything will rouse him now, The kind old sun will know," The second stanza goes much deeper into the Gen...

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