tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125075817902350182.post1656074791496355248..comments2014-11-13T20:19:58.904-05:00Comments on Michiana Mock Newbery Club: The War To End All Wars: WWI by Russell FreedmanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125075817902350182.post-38309958040165462922010-12-30T00:07:02.864-05:002010-12-30T00:07:02.864-05:00Dispassionate descriptions of battle strategies an...Dispassionate descriptions of battle strategies and casualty figures are smoothly intermixed with first-person observations and reactions from soldiers, generals and politicians to make a haunting portrait of a world both utterly different from and yet closely linked to our own. For the first time in my life I felt I began to understand the horrors of trench warfare and poison gas. At several points the numbers of dead from a single campaign, even a single day, were so shocking I had to stop and read them aloud to someone else in incredulity. And since the last chapter so clearly depicted how WWI laid the foundation for WWII, it made me wonder why the ending of WWII did not have the same effect; it makes me want to explore even more. I think this book will haunt me a long time…Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02996463286502350418noreply@blogger.com