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{{quote|''[[Harsher in Hindsight|Never again]]''.|'''Epitaph on a French War Memorial'''}}
Once upon a time, in 1918, a war between the richest and most powerful nations on earth ended. It was the biggest, most expensive, most bloody, most disruptive, most damaging and most traumatising war the world had ever seen. It left millions dead, maimed, shell-shocked, dispossessed, impoverished, starving and bitter. Victory brought relief more than it did elation or sorrow, and in the aftermath the world's great powers resolved to form a better world from the ashes of the old. This was a war that crushed attitudes, destroyed lives, brought down empires and in its conclusion sowed the seeds of further conflict and suffering. The extent to which it did all these things made the First World War a war the likes of which the world had never seen.... [[Foreshadowing|but the world was yet to see the last of this magnitude of conflict.]]
Formerly known as "The Great War", or as [[Tempting Fate|"The War to End All Wars"]], or "The World War", or "The First ''World'' War" [[Captain Obvious|until]] [[World War Two|the sequel]] [[Numbered Sequels|broke out]] (at which point it became "The ''First'' World War". Ironically, the [[Napoleonic Wars]] had previously been known as The Great War until ''this'' one broke out. This was quite possibly the most unpopular conflict in the history of civilization [[Overly Narrow Superlative|in hindsight]], and even at the time it wasn't exactly everybody's favorite. It perhaps comes a close second in the Franco-Anglosphere for the [[Vietnam War|Indo-Chinese conflicts]]. Even the final resolution of the war has been come to be dubbed "the peace to end all peaces."
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