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Reckless Misfortune - The Century We Inherited from the First World War (Hardcover)
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Reckless Misfortune - The Century We Inherited from the First World War (Hardcover)
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The First World War, or the Great War as known at the time, was
fought over a century ago. Its pursuit by the European powers in
1914 was utterly reckless and its ending was of great consequential
misfortune for humanity. Despite its enormity and global reach,
four generations later it is neglected today in the United States.
That is not the case in Europe and the Commonwealth nations, which
extensively commemorated its centennial between 2014 and 2018 with
elaborate and moving ceremonies and memorials. The European
response has understood how the First World War shaped the future,
giving rise to new ideologies, technologies, and geo-political
forces that fundamentally influenced the past century. Indeed, the
First World War ended so badly that it spawned a more catastrophic
global conflict in the Second World War just twenty years later and
cemented the ideological rifts across the planet that haunt us
today. The reckless decision to wage a global conflict in 1914 by
our great-grandparent generation impacted our lives and ways of
perceiving the world across the century, even though that
perception is now a clouded one in the United States. That is
ironic, since the twentieth century was indeed ""America's
Century"" in large part because of the First World War. Our world
remains illuminated and darkened by the consequences of the Great
War. The global human family inherited a century crafted from the
tragedy of global conflict from four generations ago. The present
generation will be able to exercise more informed and impactful
choices for the future only if it is aware of the world it
inherited from the First World War and the misfortunes it
bequeathed.
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