A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918

by G.J. Meyer

war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.”

“Hundreds upon hundreds of wounded poured in like a rushing torrent,” an American nurse remembered. “The crowded, twisted bodies, the screams and groans, made one think of Dante’s Inferno.” Men came in with parts of their faces missing, with their sexual organs gone, with limbs reduced to dripping shreds.