While millions of Americans can name Western Front battles like Belleau Wood or the Meuse-Argonne, almost no one remembers ...

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From time immemorial, mankind has gone to war without acknowledging the price warriors pay: both victors and vanquished.

Over the last century, modern gems like 1917 and ageless classics like Lawrence of Arabia have presented the brutality and ...