"The First World War had begun β imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age."
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A. J. P. Taylor, The First World War ([1963] 1970) p. 20
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World War I
World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. It was [[w:List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll|one of the deadliest c
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