World War I seems like one bleak, trench filled exercise in outdated war tactics and mustard gas attacks when history is viewed through the veil, but as it turns out we have been living under many false assumptions about The Great War, and with the centennial fast approaching historians want to set the records straight.
It seems most soldiers didn't mind being sent off to war, since they got luxuries like meat, rum and cigarettes every day which most couldn’t afford at home. Troops also weren’t stuck in trenches for years on end, they were rotated out about every ten days, and most soldiers only spent a maximum of three days on the front lines.
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The entire article has a ham-handed apologist overtone, or at least the strong odor of polemophilia.
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I'm glad that it mentioned #9. The idea that the Treaty of Versailles was harsh and thus led to World War II doesn't make any sense.
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