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Most of us will probably have to search it out on cable, or video, but Passchendaele looks really good.

I confess to having a fascination with WW1, much more than WW2. I think it shapes the present world more than any other event in recent memory (the US Civil War is more formative, for the US, but for the rest of the Western World, The Great War is, despite it's being buried in the collective subconscience, more affective)

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I don't think it shapes the present world as much as WW2, because from what I have read Europe before WW1 was ready for some serious change, but the war caused change to be ignored/ clamped down on. It took until WW2 to break things free for the actual change. Not for nothing do people refer to them as one war, with a 20 year break in between.

It also changed the European attitude to war. You just have to go and look at the thousands of war memorials for WW1, and see how it affected everyone; it was the first modern mobilizaion for total war. Then you can compare the number of dead with WW2, and see how war changed.