Paris (Nov 10, 2008): This week marks 90 years since the end of World War I, surely the last major anniversary for its handful of ageing veterans as what was dubbed the `War to End All Wars` slips from living memory into history.
In reality, rather than mark an end to human conflict, the Great War merely set the tone for the 20th century`s litany of brutality, although in terms of sheer mass killing on the battlefield it has rarely been equalled since.
Image: This file photo taken between 1917 and 1919 shows US Corporal Fred Mcintyre, after just returning with the 369th Infantry on the ship `Stockholm`. He is holding a photograph of the Kaiser that he carried around for good luck during World War I.
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