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"God could not be cruel enough to make a cyclone as terrible as that Argonne battle. Only man would ever think to do an awful thing like that. It appeared as if the abomination of desolation must look like. And all through the long nights those big weapons flashed and growled similar to the lightning and the thunder when it storms in the mountains at home. And, oh my, we had to pass the wounded. And some of these were on stretchers going back to the dressing channels, and some of these were lying around, moaning and twitching. Plus the deceased were all along the street. And it was damp and cold. And everything made me think of the Bible and the storyline of the Anti-Christ and Armageddon. And I'm letting you know the little vacation cabin in Wolf Valley in old Tennessee seemed a long good way off." - Alvin C. York World Warfare I, also known in its time as the "Great Warfare" or the "Warfare to get rid of all Wars", was an unprecedented holocaust in conditions of its absolute range. Fought by men who hailed from all sides of the globe, it saw an incredible number of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of an incredible number of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine firearm bullets were terminated in a conflict that shown man's capacity to destroy each other on a heretofore unprecedented range. And since always, such a battle brought about technology at a level that made the growth of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant. The enduring image of World Warfare I is of men caught up in muddy trenches, and of huge armies deadlocked in a combat neither could win. It had been a battle of barbed wire, poison gas, and horrific losses as officers led their soldiers on mass charges across No Man's Land and into a hail of bullets. While these impressions are too true, they conceal the actual fact that trench warfare was dynamic and constantly changing throughout the battle as all armies battled to find a way to break through the opposing lines.
