Western Winter

By Max Musson: On the 28th July 1914 there began a ‘winter’ that has so far lasted 100 years. During World War One, European nations mobilised over 60 million men in a four-year conflict in which 15 million of them would be killed or lost in action (presumed dead) and a further 20 million would be seriously wounded. Furthermore, as if such a holocaust was not bad enough there followed twenty-five years later, the Second…