The Worthless Twentieth Century

In the early twentieth century, the countries of the Western Continent stood poised against one another like a powder keg, until a single gunshot finally set it ablaze. Many ordinary people, unknown to history, were swept up in its tide. They were doctors, athletes, professional soldiers, clerks... They had just one thing in common: no honor or victory would ever belong to them. In the end, they were nothing but utterly unremarkable people.