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The First World War as a Martyrdom Operation:
Young Men Thrown into the Furnace
The First World War was one of the greatest martyrdom operations in human history (statistics are here).
Richard Koenigsberg
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| “Every nation was profligate of its manpower and conducted the war as if there were no limit to the number of men who were fit to be thrown into the furnace to feed the flames of war.” |
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| "Pearson told me about all the enormities he had seen at the front: the driving - the callous, perpetual driving by some great force which shoveled warm human hearts and bodies, warm human hopes, by the million into the furnace.” |
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| "I cannot think what these men have gone through. I have been there at the door of the furnace and witnessed it. I saw them march into the furnace.” |
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