RWTF,
I agree - a totally unneccessary slaughter of a whole generation.
For anyone who is interested in the background and the real, fairly twisted and complicated, 'reasons' of WWI
I recommend Barbara Tuchmann 'The Guns of August' and 'The Proud Tower'
I had the same thought - there could not have been too much hunting going on in Germany in 1915 - perhaps it was very early in 1915, before the fighting really got bogged down in the middle of that year.
Regards
Günter
NRA Life 1974
Danke, meine Fruend. I have read Barbra Tuchman's novel- The Guns of August- have not read the Dark Tower- have you also read Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet On The Western Front" and his second WW1 based novel- "Three Comrades"? It is said that wars are fought for political and economic gains, and the PTB (Powers That Be) do not have the first-hand experience of close death, mud, disease, lack of food, shelter, basic hygiene- that the enlisted men who end up fighting and dying for their Country do-- what puzzles me, and Ms. Tuchman touches upon this a bit in "Guns Of August" is the relationship between the Kaiser and England- he was a nephew to Queen Victoria--some things we shall never fathom in our entire lifetime I suppose-Der Fuchs
