It was over at last, but the extent of the losses and devastation was almost beyond comprehension. The Americans had suffered “only” 117,000 dead and 230,000 wounded, and of those deaths, only 53,000 were combat deaths; most of the others were from disease. But these numbers were tiny compared to the losses of other belligerent nations. The British Commonwealth death toll stood at nearly 1 million; the French 1.4 million, the Russian 1.7 million; the Italian 460,000; the German 1.8 million; the Austrian-Hungarian 1.2 million; and the Turkish 325,000. The total number of military and civilian
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