I don't know if everyone had the same experience, but in my copy of the book—purchased from Amazon—I found quite a few typos.
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• Calmette was to move from one onslaught to the next in 19121913.
• “1 esteem the moral values of war on the whole rather highly,” he told a friend.
• As an example of the scale of casualties, the nth Brigade had, by December 20, only 18 percent of its original officers left and 28 percent of its men.
• In 19 × 5 Zeppelin raids on London and Paris began, and by early 1916 these raids were being undertaken as far north as Lancashire.
• Some military historians, in defense of the commanders of the wart have argued that there was no alternative to trench warfare on the Western Front, and rather than being the product of a failure in imagination, as is usually claimed, trench warfare constituted a reasonable way of trying to deal with the tremendous technological and scientific advances in warfare.
• “1 hope to play the game and if I don’t add much lustre to it I will certainly not tarnish it,” wrote a young British volunteer before the Somme.
• On November ii, 1918, the day of the Armistice, Henri Berr, the French historian, wrote the concluding sentences of an introduction to a book about the war
• Officially, the war had ended eight and a half years earlier, on November ii, 1918.
• On November n, 1920, the unknown soldier was borne from France and buried at Westminster Abbey, and within two days 100,000 wreaths had been laid at the cenotaph in Whitehall.
• Their art. was rooted in ugliness.
• Germans were con vinced that the war in 1939 was a question of survival, an inescapable continuation of the 1914–1918 struggle.
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Whoever scanned this book did a less than stellar job of proofreading their scan.