The Senseless Slaughter of the Great War (World War I)

LewRockwell · Oct 28, 2026

In 1914, a whole generation is drawn into the world’s first global conflict. During its four years, the Great War would call upon seventy million men from twenty countries to do their duty. Nine million would die.

In Killing Fields, soldiers from all sides remember the trenches and the tactics, the food, the fleas, the casualties — the terrible nature and scale of the senseless slaughter that shattered the old world order.

Killing Fields opens with scenes of the enthusiasm that greeted the outbreak of war in the capital cities of Europe. Soldiers marched off expecting excitement, adventure…