About KILLING FIELDS of World War One
WORLD WAR ONE (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global conflict originating in Europe that lasted from July 28, 1914, to November 11, 1918.
Contemporaneously described as “The War To End All Wars,” it led to the mobilization of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. It was also one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with an estimated nine million combatants and seven million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war, while resulting genocides and the 1918 influenza pandemic lead to another 50 to 100 million deaths worldwide.
The war caused the disintegration of four empires: the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian. Germany lost its overseas empire, and states such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were created or recreated, as in the cases of Lithuania and Poland. This contributed to a decisive break with the world order that had emerged after the Napoleonic Wars, which was modified by the mid-19th century’s nationalistic revolutions. The results of World War I would also be important factors in the development of World War II just over two decades later.
Much of the fighting in World War I took place along the Western Front, within a system of opposing manned trenches and fortifications (separated by a “no man’s land”) running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate from developing, although the scale of the conflict was just as large. Hostilities also occurred on and under the sea and, for the first time in the history of warfare, in the air.
KILLING FIELDS of World War One, by Cotter Bass, provides a brief but explicit overview of the battlefield horrors of World War I. Accordingly, readers are hereby cautioned regarding the graphic nature of the battlefield photographs presented in this chronicle.
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COTTER BASS – Author Biography
Cotter Bass, an 86-year-old writer, photographer, and retired architect, is a former U.S. Marine. Cotter and his wife Violet presently reside in Greenwood, Indiana. Cotter enjoys the outdoors, especially fishing and golf. When he is not writing or researching project leads, much of Cotter’s time is spent in the pursuit of trout and bass, playing golf, and photography.
Cotter Bass has been writing for more than 60 years. The majority of his early work targeted fishing and related outdoor subjects. Cotter penned angling columns for several regional newspapers and eventually secured a monthly trout fishing column with the angling publication, FishingPA.
Cotter’s published works include:
KILLING FIELDS of World War One
INDIANA’S LOST & BURIED TREASURES (Revised Edition)
ECHOES OF SLAVERY – Volume I
ECHOES OF SLAVERY – Volume II
REMEMBERING SLAVERY
FUDGE!
IDENTITY THEFT
World War One KILLING FIELDS (Original Edition)
START YOUR OWN HOME-BASED BUSINESS
FRAUD PROTECTION FOR SENIORS
ANTI-CRIME MEASURES
BEST GOLF TIP EVER
THE BARLOW BOYS MEET THE ALLAGASH GHOST
Cotter is presently working on two additional book projects; a collection of Civil War soldiers’ letters entitled DEAREST MOTHER, and C.O.D. (Cause Of Death), a book revealing causes of celebrity deaths.