This war was called “The war to end all wars”, in the end like so many wars it is hard to tell the victor from the vanquished. The armies that opposed one another were worn out, the civilian population was homeless and the cities in between were leveled.
New technologies delivered death on an unheard of scale. The airplane, machine gun, tanks and poisonus gas made killing easier and faster. Armies faced off against each other from protective trenches, the land in between was called “no mans land” for good reason. Constant shelling and bombarment made recovering the dead impossible.
During World War l Scottish pipers in the British Army played allied troops out of the trenchs and accross no mans land to the germans. The germans on hearing the bagpipe knew that soon all hell would break loose. They named the kilted troops “The ladies from hell”. More than 3000 pipers would die before the order was given that pipers are not leave the trenches.
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