Re: The War - Ken Burns Series on PBS
I don't disagree with any of that Blarg. But the fact that nothing really happened, in a strategic sense, for vast periods of WWI, whereas WWII and the CW had so many more 'defining moments'.
WWII (and I'm missing tons):
Blitzkrieg
Pearl Harbor
North Africa
D-Day
Bulge
Guadalcanal
Midway
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
CW (again, missing tons):
John Brown
Fort Sumpter
Manasas
Antietam
Emancipation
Shiloh
Gettysberg
Andersonville
Cold Harbor
Sherman's March
The Blockade
Appomattox
I just don't think that Verdun and the Somme represent dramatic pivots in the same way.
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