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Transcript: Remembering World War I
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- Special Report with Brit Hume (Fox News Network)
- Article date:
- June 17, 1999
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HUME: To many Americans, the Second World War and the cold war are
the defining military events of the 20th century, both waged for clear
reasons against powers who posed a clear threat to American interests.
But many historians have regarded World War I, with its much more
ambiguous roots, as the seminal military event of our time.
John Keegan, the famous British military historian and journalist
has written a much-praised new account of that war entitled simply
"The First World War." And he joins me here now.
Welcome, sir.
JOHN KEEGAN, BRITISH MILITARY HISTORIAN: ...