Mankind by providing the setting of the outbreak of the 20th 20th centurys first huge calamity, what was then called the great war. Those days arent quite as distant as some suppose, when we remember that a few people still alive today lived through them. Albeit as children. 2014 will mark the send ten centenary. I spend the past three years writing a book describing both how the war came about and what happened on the battlefields during it first months before the fronts lapsed into stalemate. Thats a wildly held view, a delusion is a argue, that the two world wars belong to different moral order in 193945 was good war. 191418 was a bad one. The first complex was so horrendous that the merits of the two sides causes scarcely mounted. The british and american peoples have always had a vivid idea what they think happened in world war ii. Until 1941, britain defied the vast evil of naziism alone. Then russia and the United States took the strain, encompassing the destruction of hitler. T