According to William Manchester's book, "The Last Lion", nearly half of French males, age 20 to 32, were either killed or maimed during WW1. Please, if anyone out there has a statistic which more accurately underscores the insanity of war more than this one, send it, 'cause I'd really like to see it.........................................................................................P.S. Manchester also cites the fact that the British suffered 60,000 casualties on the first day of the Battle of Somme alone and that this sacrifice didn't secure as much as a single yard of territory......and, so, yes, feel free to add, futility, to the criticism, too.
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