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** To drive this home, [http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/254/2/f/in_coburg_by_alixofhesse-d49klk6.png this picture] shows [[Queen Victoria]] at Coburg inn 1894 with her some of her extended family. In that picture you have two future British Kings, as well as the last Kaiser (of Germany) and the last Czarina (of Russia), and those are just children and grandchildren.

* [[Foreshadowing]]:

"The crash will come twenty years after I am gone." - Bismarck, 18 years before the end of the German Empire<br />

"The lights are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." - Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Minister, as the war began<br />

* The novel ''Goshawk Squadron'' (1971) by [[Derek Robinson]] deconstructs the popular view of World War One air combat which, rather than dueling "Knights of the Air", actually involved undertrained pilots diving out of the sun and machine-gunning their opponent in the back before he had a chance to defend himself. ''War Story''(1987) and ''Hornet's Sting'' (1999) by the same author have a similar setting.

* The novel ''Strange Meeting'' (1971) by Susan Hill, title taken from a Wilfred Owen poem, is about the friendship between two British officers on the front line.

* British author Pat Barker has written three award-winning novels that form her World War I trilogy, [[The Regeneration Trilogy]] (1991-1995): ''Regeneration,'' ''The Eye in the Door,'' and ''The Ghost Road.'' The novels are chock full of history and real-life characters, including the poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and Robert Graves. The first novel was turned into a movie, released in 1997 and known as ''Regeneration'' in the UK and ''Behind the Lines'' in the US.

* ''Birdsong'' (1993) by Sebastian Faulks, widely considered one of the great WWI novels. It describes the horrors of trench warfare, through the eyes of troubled young officer Stephen Wraysford and of his men.