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Article: Books: A war to start all modern wars; Ross Reyburn looks at new books which deal with the many horrors of the First World War.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
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- January 23, 1999
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On September 18, 1922, Adolf Hitler, the demobilised frontfighter, threw down a challenge to a defeated Germany uttering the menacing words: "It cannot be that two million Germans should have fallen in vain. No, we do not pardon, we demand vengeance!"
The recollection forms part of historian John Keegan's compelling argument in his book The First World War (Hutchinson, pounds 25) inextricably linking the roots of the Second World War to the First World War.
"A child's shoe in the Polish dust, a scrap of rusting barbed wire, a residue of pulverised bone near ...