When I was young I always thought that "the war to end all wars" was
WW2. Later I learned that it was
WW1. Sadly I don't know much about
WW1. The only thing I ever really knew about it was
All Quiet on the Western Front, and not even the book, but the
made-for-tv movie starring
John-Boy. I knew about the
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the sinking of the
Lusitania, and the bungled
Treaty of Versailles and the
League of Nations. I knew about
mustard gas and the
trenches, but that was it.
So it was only right that I read
The War to End all Wars: WW1. I can't say that I remember too much more than what I knew before, except that I knew I never really knew how it was a war that started because of a lot of misunderstandings and that no one really wanted the war in the first place. This book was good, but it wasn't my cup of tea.
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