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Recalling the “War To End All Wars”

Library of Congress

It got underway one hundred years ago.  (Although the U-S wouldn’t join in until almost 3 years later.)
Our question -- are there lessons from World War One that are relevant in today’s universe?
And if there are, what might those lessons be?  

Guests:

Edward Lengel, Ph.D. -  Author of the Washington Post Op/Ed  "Why Didn't We Listen to Their War Stories?".    Author of the books World War I Memories  (Scarecrow Press); To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918,   (Henry Holt & Company);  and the forthcoming Thunder And Flames:  Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918.    Professor and Editor-in-Chief of the Papers of George Washington  project at the University of Virginia.

Stephen Schuker, Ph.D. -  Author of the Time Magazine Op/Ed "What Historians Get Wrong about World War I," . Author of the book American Reparations to Germany, 1919-33: Implications for the Third World Debt Crisis (Princeton University).  The William W. Corcoran Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
 

Tom Graham was Senior Producer and host of WMRA's Virginia Insight from 2006 to 2015.