He was sucked into it by the global disorder that followed the first world war.
John Keegan, The First World War, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, pp. 24-47.
His father was an English insurance broker who came to Mexico after the first world war.
Interest in the first world war, wrongly thought to be unforgettable, waned as its veterans died.
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Turkey gave up all claims to non-Turkish territories lost in the First World War.
Her novel begins before the first world war and concludes midway through the second.
Roma was four when her father died fighting in France in the first world war.
The Spanish flu of 1918 may have killed more people than the first world war.
Her father was killed in the first world war and her two brothers in the second.
IR Your chart puts total British-empire deaths in the first world war just below 1m.
IR In casting the blame for the first world war you are too kind to Kaiser Wilhelm.
The biggest French graveyards are those of the soldiers who died in the first world war.
Here at this memorial, we recall our shared sacrifices in the trenches of the First World War.
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He was readmitted to the French army, served in the first world war and died in 1935.
The arguments made by Keynes with regard to Germany after the first world war remain valid today.
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Mr Priestland sees the first world war as both the consequence and the graveyard of that system.
At the outbreak of the first world war, only 62 independent countries existed in the entire globe.
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But when the czar blundered into the First World War he brought this progress to a crushing halt.
The big shift occurred after the carnage of the first world war and the Spanish flu that followed.
Consider the anniversary to the end of the First World War - at least, the fighting ended anyway.
Of course the experience of the first world war profoundly influenced a whole generation of soldiers and civilians.
After the first world war, America's big idea to create perpetual world peace was the League of Nations.
The Swiss Taeuber-Arp and her husband, Hans Arp, from Alsace, were Dadaists in Zurich during the First World War.
During the first world war he avoided call-up by faking a nervous breakdown.
Finally, globalisation went into reverse as the first world war and the Great Depression pushed governments further towards autarky.
The losers from globalisation triggered a political backlash against it, even before the first world war sealed its fate.
It was Germany's devastating use of mustard gas in the trenches of the First World War which prompted Britain's research.
Theodore Kattouf, a former U.S. ambassador to Syria, traces Syria's interest back to the period after the First World War.
He has taken part in a commemoration service for those killed during the First World War's Battle of the Somme.
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Meanwhile, Secretary of State John Reid has welcomed "changing nationalist attitudes" to remembering the dead of the first World War.
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