World War I: You Have One Less Fight Than World War II

"In 1914, European rulers were like sleepwalkers, walking step by step into the trap they had set by themselves. They came from an old world that had long been peaceful, but they used the most modern means to destroy that world and opened the door to a darker era. This period of history is not so much a beginning as it is the end of an era, and the way it ends predicts all the tragedies of the next era."