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The real disillusionment with war came about with the invention of photography. Prior to that people who weren't there couldn't really see what the men who fought saw. And about that same time advances were made in embalming so that rather than being buried on the field where they fell they might have a chance of being returned home for burial. It's hard to see the 'glory of war' when you can see the human cost in vivid images. I watched a documentary about Universal pictures and Lon Chaney the other night where some people pointed out that Chaney was really playing disabled war vets who due to advances in medicine had survived wounds that would at one time have been fatal.
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