In October 1916, as the war in Europe was entering its third terrible year, President Woodrow Wilson remarked that “a hundred years from now, it will not be the bloody details that the world will think of in this war: it will be the causes behind it, the adjustments which it will force.” He may have underestimated future generations’ fascination with the “bloody details” of the fighting, but about our persistent interest in the war’s causes and consequences he was surely right.
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