In last month’s column, I recounted how America was drawn into The Great War, as World War I was initially known.
Atrocities on the European battlefields by the Central Powers forces, led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, Roumania and the Ottoman Turks against the Allied forces of France, Russia and Great Britain finally prompted the United States to join the war in 1917 – the year the Russians pulled out.
Millions on both sides had died in…