Operation Overlord — the Allied invasion of Western Europe — proved ... the Battle of the Bulge lay ahead, as the war eventually turned into a World War I-style bloodbath until March 1945.

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

But of course, the mutual suicide pact of the Western powers in World War should be bleak. If you have the stomach, I highly recommend it.