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| 23f2d4f | So, in the still-lingering shadow of 1861-65, let us suspend disbelief for a while and look more attentively at Europe's Great War. To a large extent, American perceptions of 1914-18 have been influenced by debates in Britain--readily accessible via the "common language." There 1914-18 has become a literary war, a human tragedy detached from its moorings in historical events, entrenched in the mud of Flanders and Picardy, illuminated only b.. | David Reynolds |