The exhibition The World at War, 1914-1918 marks the centenary of the start of World War I. Once thought to be "the war to end war," such na?ve optimism was quickly shattered by the experience of civilian and soldier thrust into the shared horror of industrial warfare. The war lasted four long years and killed ten million people. Wilfred Owen eulogized those killed in battle as "our undying dead." Siegfried Sassoon called them "the nameless...
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